smashup

Example Sentences

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Before the smashup began, the Indian Plate varied in thickness and composition, which helps explain the crescent shape of the 2500-kilometer-long Himalayan front.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 9, 2024

Because the event likely battered Uranus’s interior, an orbiter that can detect fluctuations in the planet’s gravitational field would be able to map any internal anomalies created by the giant smashup.

From Scientific American • Mar. 30, 2023

Several valuable vehicles are arriving at — or leaving — the museum today, a coincidental calendar smashup that has Yates ping-ponging between projects.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2023

And they’re lessons that underscore just how the Cubists plunged into a new world, without fear, and gave us a vital example for a contemporary culture desperate for its own smashup.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022

"I read once of a comp'ny putting two locomotives on one track an' running 'em full-tilt together so's to get a picture of the smashup."

From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by Cooper, James A.