Sentence examples for smash a plate from inspiring English sources

Tom Cairns, who is both the director and the librettist of the Adès opera, said, "If I were directing this, right about now I'd ask someone to get up and smash a plate".

When you're working yourself to the bone with clenched teeth and a customer is making a fuss, you just want to smash a plate on their head.

How does a thief inconspicuously smash a plate-glass door of a clothing store in the middle of Manhattan?

Then she smashed a plate on the floor.

The collapse of a nebula into stars is similar to smashing a plate on the floor.

"Second-hand Mary the human ragbag, the man who sold plates by wearing long gangly earrings and smashing a plate with a toffee hammer every now and then.

She decides to create a scene by calling the waiter to her and smashing a plate on the ground in disgust.

When asked to stop smoking, a young Parisian woman angrily stubbed out her cigarette on the shiny bar, and then smashed a plate before leaving the restaurant.

The artist John Torreano, a friend of Lozano's, recalled a holiday party at the end of that year when, dismayed by the evening's bourgeois atmosphere, she shouted, "I'm so bored!" and smashed a plate on a table, then threatened to cut her wrist with a shard.

Her band, the Machine, thump the button marked "rockabilly" while she offers lyrics such as: "You hit me once, I hit you back, you gave a kick, I gave a slap, you smashed a plate over my head, then I set fire to our bed".

I smashed a plate on the front porch.