Sentence examples for smashed windscreen from inspiring English sources
One protester jumped onto the roof of a car before dropping a Molotov cocktail through the smashed windscreen.
Theo is squeezed into the back of a derelict taxi with a smashed windscreen beside Vincent and me.
Later that night, as we headed to the scene of what was possibly the largest fire of the riots – at a Sony distribution centre near the M25 – we suspected we were being followed by a car with a smashed windscreen, forcing us to accelerate through a red light.
On Beauman's watch, unlovely south London will never again be so romantic: "In the gutter there are diamonds of safety glass," he notes of a smashed windscreen, "with which this morning's rain has mingled an alluvium of damp white blossom and a few fronds of synthetic wig hair caught on a chicken bone, like the shattered remains of a tribal fetish".
As affecting as those images are, with the weight of their historical value, the real glory is in the poetic mundanity of the rest of the archive; a turkey defrosting in a kitchen sink, a smashed windscreen, family hangouts, a day at the beach, an anonymous funeral.
Earlier this month protesters in several towns in Punjab, Pakistan's wealthiest province, smashed windscreens, blocked motorways, shut down markets and set fire to the offices of parliamentarians and an electric utility.
Fifty injuries were recorded, caused by flying objects, road accidents due to poor visibility and smashed windscreens and other factors.
Prosecutors had claimed Slatten, the convoy's sniper, viewed killing Iraqis as "payback for 9/11" and often "deliberately fired his weapon to draw out return fire and instigate gun battles" or tried to smash windscreens of passing cars as his convoy rolled through Baghdad.
"A group of coppers were running down the road towards me, smashing windscreens".
He watched as people jumped on to the roof of a moving Transit van and smashed the windscreen.
The villagers set up roadblocks to prevent escape from the area, pelting the vehicle with stones - one of which smashed their windscreen and hit Ms Wolfrom in the jaw.
