in smithereens
Example Sentences
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It’s even harder, though, to recover from a relationship you have put your heart into only to have it returned to you in smithereens.
From The Guardian • May 8, 2016
The switchboard was in smithereens, but with the help of portable apparatus they got generators going.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If words were shells and epithets bombs, the Armies of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin would both be in smithereens.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I mean, my heart was already pretty much in smithereens.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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My dear girl, if it had rested with me, we should both be lying in smithereens at the present moment, on the rocks below.
From The Vision of Desire by Pedler, Margaret