SMITHEREENS in a Sentence

Learn SMITHEREENS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for SMITHEREENS, such as:

1. She dashed the glass into smithereens against the wall.
2. So many films nowadays involve everyone and everything being blown to smithereens.
3. A British research vessel that was nearly pounded to smithereens by a massive storm in the North Atlantic in 2000.

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 Meanings and Examples of SMITHEREENS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
smithereens
 n.  fragments; atoms; splintered pieces; bits
Classic Sentence:
1  At any moment guns would rake that land into furrows; planes splinter Bolney Minster into smithereens and blast the Folly.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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Example Sentence:
1  She dashed the glass into smithereens against the wall.
2  So many films nowadays involve everyone and everything being blown to smithereens.
3  A British research vessel that was nearly pounded to smithereens by a massive storm in the North Atlantic in 2000.