Sentence examples for were smashed open from inspiring English sources

There were clothes and mattresses strewn in the street and the gates of many of the spacious villas were smashed open.

On its own, this fact would not be so surprising, but a recent examination of the animal's bones suggests that they were smashed open with large cobbles, most likely for the marrow inside.

Trees were set alight by protesters during fighting with police and the gates to the grounds of parliament were smashed open to allow thousands of protesters to pour in and set up a camp.

All the braincases and long bones of both deer and humans were smashed open, presumably to allow brains and marrow to be extracted.

The windows of his room were smashed open. .

Inside, jewellery cabinets are smashed open.

They have been smashed open, kicked apart and mercilessly looted.

Cinderella, it seems, has had a nasty accident in her horse-drawn coach, which has been smashed open and lies on its side.

There were police lying asleep on the floor; in the canteen, vending machines had been smashed open by officers desperate for food and drink.

While the cinematographer was filming on board the steamboat as it bounced over fierce rapids, his hand was smashed open and had to be sewn up without anesthesia.

It was Mauro Biello's side's first win at home this season, finally breaking a duck that should have been smashed open some time ago.