Sentence examples for smithereens that from inspiring English sources

(A control on the side of the Beamer lets you adjust the picture to suit your deterioration preference: smoother-but-blurrier or jerkier-but-sharper). Any static on the line blows your loved one's face into pixellated smithereens that take several seconds to reconstitute.

And when we went back to the dump, some time later, and found new garbage there, new generations of refuse, we knew that underneath it all were our smithereens, that we could go on forging them for as long as we were alive, that we would always remember the day we first broke the limited whole.

The BBC's glossiest, smartest, most indecently entertaining Sunday night drama in ages, blown to smithereens: all that careful, incremental work made irrelevant, fine performances and direction rendered forgettable by a simple credibility gap.

Few are prepared to really shoot Emmerich's vision to smithereens: it seems that there's a grudging respect for a man who has found his niche, whether or not you appreciate his brutal, bullheaded corner of celluloid creativity.

In sci-fi, super powers benefit from a more stagnant frame speed and enhances the impact of smashing a landmark to smithereens or stopping that proverbial speeding bullet.

(The Shuttle can't go beyond a near-Earth orbit; nukes would be deployed in standoff explosions to nudge the asteroid, rather than in subsurface blasts that would send smithereens everywhere; and oil drillers wouldn't... well, it's pretty clear).

What we hear tonight are not Toni Morrison-style home-front lamentations, but war stories from a foreign land: slain buddies and precision equipment that was blown to smithereens its first time out.

Rather than men crawling through tunnels and harvesting veins of the fossil fuel, vast amounts of ordinance is used to blow the mountains to smithereens along with every living thing that's on them at the time of the explosion.

NWA's first album blew all that to smithereens.

After a pause, he added: "I love that word: smithereens".

"Being an actor you want to connect with another actor and Robert Rodriguez blew that to smithereens because especially doing green screen you don't know how the movie is going to turn out," he said, adding that he was amazed by the results.