Sentence examples for smashing away from inspiring English sources

Anchored to a window frame, near the ceiling, the woodpecker was smashing away at the wall with sideways strokes of its mighty bill.

Federer, who lost only three points on his serve in the final set, held to love to close the match, smashing away a poor lob by Tsonga to seal the win.

The employees from Metinvest and DTEK out on the streets of Mariupol on a sunny morning insisted that their action was primarily to prevent the scenes from last week, - police headquarters burning, dead bodies in the streets, armoured personnel carriers (APCs) smashing away cars - from recurring.

There is one startling scene where the later-teen Borg, after a stern rebuke, storms off into some remote Swedish woodland for a dark-twilight-of the-tennis-soul, raging at the game and at himself, smashing away at the splintering bark with his racket.

After smashing away a first break point he fired long on the second, and the crowd came alive as Murray yelled in delight at his unexpected second life.

The missing chunk could be due to a giant impact, smashing away part of KBO's icy mantle, or it could mean Quaoar is actually a "contact binary," consisting of two more-or-less spherical bodies that touch each other.

But over time the ocean smashed away two grand piers as well as Portpatrick's future as a transport hub.

There has to be more to us than memories and quirks that can get smashed away so easily.

New York was to be modern, increasingly vertical, the old neighbourhoods scraped and smashed away, and bold new expressways built to speed the traffic through.

They had also lobbed a brick at the Persian inscription above the entrance, and smashed away some of the mosque's fine carved screens.

The Yankees splurged on offense last winter, determined to smash away the memory of the World Series, when anemic hitting doomed them to defeat.