smash-up

Example Sentences

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The Cardinals tied in the fifth on three straight singles, with Arenado’s smash up the middle driving in the runs.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2022

They could make for an entertaining day’s racing if the peloton gets caught in crosswinds and starts to smash up.

From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2021

But Rumsfeld and Cheney were “careless people,” to use F. Scott Fitzgerald’s words — the type that smash up things and walk away, letting other people clean up after them.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2020

But, with most viewers unable to hear his lyrics, it came off as "I'm so rich I can smash up this expensive car live on TV."

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2018

"You remember when they had that smash up on the railroad last week—don't you?"

From Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 by Various