Sentence examples for smashing a record from inspiring English sources

Last year was the hottest on record by far, smashing a record set only a year earlier.

His mother has an early memory of a priest rushing into their house and smashing a record they were playing of a traditional Irish céilí.

The DPP's leading candidate, the youthful Morten Messerschmidt, topped the poll and doubled the party's seats in the European Parliament to four; his 465,758 personal votes smashed a record set a decade ago by a former prime minister, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, who once castigated the DPP as "dishonourable".The election leaves Denmark's mainstream political parties in a state of disarray.

She had just smashed a record that had stood for 23 years.

Uber also smashed a record of its own as it completed its 2 billionth ride.

"But it was a surprise to me that it smashed a record by such a wide margin".

A swimming teacher at Repton school in Derbyshire, Hood-Leverett withhed with a tear in her eye as the 21-year-old local lad won Olympic gold in the early hours of Monday morning – smashing a world record in the process.

Thoroughly smashing a distance record set just last year, astronomers have discovered a galaxy that lies 13.4 billion light-years from Earth and thus shone forth when the universe was less than 3% of its current age of 13.8 billion years.

They all believe Semenya is about to unleash the full force of her supreme ability and smash a world record that has stood for 33 years.

Besides that, and her opening and closing Olympic performances last year, Sande won two BRIT awards this year and smashed a chart record held by the Beatles for nearly 50 years.

The Australian all-rounder, who spent part of the 2004 and 2005 seasons on the south coast – and signed off his second stay with an unbeaten double hundred – smashed a world record in Mirpur yesterday, hitting 15 sixes in an astonishing innings of 185 not out from just 96 deliveries.