Sentence examples for which squashed from inspiring English sources

Students there who were unable to get into the rackets court took their exercise hitting an India-rubber ball, which squashed when hit against a wall.

It was the big public-sector unions which squashed the 2005 reforms proposed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, then California's governor.In many rich countries average wages in the state sector are higher than in the private one.

It was a Scandinavian 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Qxd5 3 Nc3 Qd6, a known line, and Black was equal until he allowed the Russian to establish a pawn at d6 which squashed the defences.

This Saturday is the anniversary of the 1983 American invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, which squashed a revolution on the tiny island that dared to challenge US control of the Caribbean.

Keyboard startup Minnum, which squashes the Qwerty keyboard into a small sausage at the base of the screen, has put a few of its ideas on record — namely that tilting gestures, combined with its squashed keyboard layout, could be used to input text.

Inside the front cover of her statistics textbook was a squashed bug, which she had circled and labelled "Maryann at the end of Stat".

Zumthor's plan for the hotel resembles a squashed doughnut, which I would recall one evening when he remarked over drinks that while his work "is close to Le Corbusier because we share the same culture," he wished to "make a design on the scale of Oscar Niemeyer".

At one point, Diana and Hasnat take a walk along the Cornish coast and kiss before Diana yells, "Last one back to the car is a squashed tomato!" Which makes her breakdown ten minutes later seem doubly strange.

This was Bowie's so-called "plastic soul" album, which he described as "the squashed remains of ethnic music as it survives in the age of Muzak, written and sung by a white limey".

The Si nanoparticles are uniformly intercalated in the squashed interlayers of SEG which are then further filled by amorphous carbon.

I take this personally because I have boxer dogs, which are bred to have jutting jaws and squashed noses, which hamper their breathing.