Sentence examples for smashed display from inspiring English sources

Through the skylights, I saw a few dusty pots and smashed display cases.

The robbers smashed display cases with hammers in what was the second major museum theft in two months in the debt-ridden country.

As Parisians strolled unawares past the store's wrought-iron gates, the robbers smashed display cases and barked out orders — and the names of some of the Harry Winston employees.

Dozens of remorseful and dismayed commuters crowded around the smashed display windows at the flagship Hudson Bay store, a historical building that was the first focus of rampaging looters Wednesday night.

Protesters broke into City Hall that night, smashing display cases, painting graffiti and burning an American flag.

A gunman dressed in black burst into a jewelry store in the ornate lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Saturday afternoon, announced that he was robbing the store and began smashing display cases with the butt of his gun, the police said.

On 29 January, a small band of looters entered Cairo's Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, slicing the heads from two mummies, smashing display cases, and damaging other artifacts, according to media reports and Zahi Hawass, the director of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.

Then they smashed the display cases and grabbed merchandise.

Mr Haw said officers had come at quarter to three this morning and had crammed and "smashed" his display into the container.

Two others smashed a display case and grabbed several real handguns, NBC San Diego reports.

A security guard at a suburban Chicago jewelry store shot a would-be robber attempting to smash a display case with a sledgehammer Sunday afternoon.