Sentence examples for they smash up from inspiring English sources

As they smash up neat Georgian barracks, the Russians curse their own poverty and hail their victory in the same breath.

Teenage boys in hoodies, screaming at each other as they smash up all the recycling bins.

When they hit the atoms in the atmosphere, they smash up the atomic nucleus and produce a spray of hadrons - particles containing quarks and gluons.

They smashed up the house, but miraculously the Bloomfield family, asleep at the back, escaped injury.

Turks were very angry, they smashed up cars with Syrian number plates.

When he remonstrated with the dealers, they smashed up his car and shot out 58 windows in his church.Yet West End is now as peaceful as evensong.

They smashed up almost all the city's remaining mausoleums - the resting places of Timbuktu's legendary 333 saints - and burnt thousands of ancient manuscripts.

"They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they made".

I liked the Who because it seemed that sonically the bass player was more important than the guitarist, but also because they smashed up guitars, which was only topped by Hendrix setting them on fire.

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they made".

Rival firms of chartered accountants or the staff of rival supermarket chains may feel some bond with their employers, but rarely one that would push them into breaking the law, as happened in Fleet Street during the hacking scandal – and as football yobs used to demonstrate every time they smashed up a train or a pub or kicked a rival fan's head in on match days.