How to Use smash in a Sentence

smash

1 of 2 noun

• The new movie is a smash.
• The vase fell to the ground with a loud smash.
• She was a smash at the party.
• His new song promises to be a smash hit.
• She hit an overhand smash that won the match.
• Johnson won male video of the year for the smash at last year’s show.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2023
• The result was a smash that led sales charts on both sides of the Atlantic.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2023
• Grab your lover and clap along to this dance-friendly smash.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2023
• Of course, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise was a smash hit.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2023
• The show becomes a smash hit while at the same time sparking outrage.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2023
• One of the best burgers in the city is most certainly the smash burger at Nowon.
  — Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
• When one of these sharks goes in for the kill, the surface smash is epic, and your reel’s drag is going to scream.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
• The cocktail was a smash hit and opened the doors for all the inventive martinis of 2023.
  — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 8 Dec. 2023
• Many gamers around the world have grown up with the smash hit, including in China.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
• The Tampa Bay Rays rearranged the cast members a bit, but the end of the show was just as big of a smash.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
• The smash burger is to die for in the comfortable pub setting with great view.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2022
• Now, he’s matched one of his own records with one of his latest smashes.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Shogun was a smash hit, selling more than six million copies by 1980.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
• How about a game of smash or pass on popular cocktails to close us out?
  — Meg Donohue, ELLE, 16 Dec. 2022
• Is a Bryce Young-Quentin Johnston duo guaranteed to be a smash hit?
  — Josh Criswell, Chron, 26 Jan. 2023
• Two iconic settings from the smash hit sitcom are pictured on the box as well.
  — Scott King, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• That smash is back at No. 10, wasting no time in going right back into the top 10 yet again.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The restaurant was a smash hit, and became a who’s who of A-List celebrities and fawning food critics.
  — Navneet Alang, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2023
• In the clip, Black and Gass strut around the red carpet, doing dance moves and jump-kicking while belting along to the D’s hard rock take on the 1998 pop smash.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2024
• The end result was exactly what the band and its team had hoped for: a growing radio smash.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 12 Jan. 2023
• The movie quickly became a smash hit at the box office, with a half dozen more sequels later on.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 14 July 2023
• Years after the release of the 1982 supernatural smash hit E.T., the cast is still hard at work.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2023
• Thanks to Alvarez's big swing on the first pitch from Ryan, that streak of one or zero runs allowed ended with a smash.
  — Dave Campbell, Chron, 8 Apr. 2023
• From the smash hit movie to its Grammy award-winning soundtrack, the iconic doll (and all the pink) is everywhere right now.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 6 Dec. 2023
• The album proved to be a commercial smash, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with just three days of sales.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2023

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smash

2 of 2 verb

• The ball smashed the window.
• The vase fell and smashed to pieces.
• He smashed the vase with a hammer.
• He smashed into the wall.
• She smashed the ball deep into the opposite corner.
• The trucks get smashed up, and the stuff gets looted or ransacked off the backs of the trucks.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• When the garlic has cooled, unwrap the bulb, squeeze out the cloves and smash them.
  — Janelle Davis, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
• Meza dribbled to the right side of the box and smashed into the top right corner of the goal.
  — Kyle Garcia For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2023
• The men’s bodies were found the next day, the stocks of their guns smashed from having been used as clubs.
  — Sebastian Junger, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• Colorado and coach Deion Sanders are the talk of the sport and smashing audience records.
  — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
• In a nearby liquor store, bottles shimmied off their shelves and smashed to the floor.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
• The trick is to smash some beans against your pot to thicken the soup and extract colossal flavor.
  — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 27 Mar. 2023
• The wave smashed glass on the patios of rooms facing the ocean at the motel and flooding rooms with about 2 feet of water.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• Using the heel of your palm, gently smash each one open so that the skin splits but the potato remains whole.
  — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2023
• After striking the other car, troopers said the Corvette smashed through the power pole and hit a tree.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2023
• To make pie, pumpkins are smashed, have their seeds removed and then are strained and mushed into a puree.
  — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
• The migrants had been clinging to the jagged rocks after their boat smashed into the reef late Friday.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Aug. 2023
• Kai Luschar drew a leadoff walk and Bunker smashed the first pitch to left-center for her ninth home run of the season to put the Ducks ahead.
  — oregonlive, 16 Apr. 2023
• Apple says the new material makes the phones lighter and harder to smash.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2023
• This thought was immensely satisfying, as was the smashing sound of the rock against the drone’s body.
  — Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
• Anything that can smash, like a nice camera, should always be stored in lower bins in the event of a hasty turn or quick stop.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Alyssa Daniell smashes a 2-run home run to left-center, 2-0 Oregon.
  — oregonlive, 12 May 2023
• Trailing by two runs in the eighth inning with the bases loaded, Ruth smashed a three-run homer over the center-field fence — his second blast of the game to match Gehrig’s two blasts.
  — Joe Davidson, Sacramento Bee, 4 Apr. 2024
• Neel Kashkari smashed a wind-up toy train and handed out gas cards to protest high-speed rail during his 2014 run for governor.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
• True, BlackPink has smashed various records, and chalked up eight U.K. top 40 appearances along the way.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 8 May 2023
• When the momentum swung one last time, as Alcaraz cranked a backhand down the line to break Djokovic’s serve early in the fifth set, the Serb with the steely mind smashed his racket on the net post.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 16 July 2023
• The players smashed into each other, and Poa hit the floor and immediately held her head in her hands.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024
• Walker woke up on the morning of May 10 to the sound of a Portland police officer trying to smash the car window to his left.
  — oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2023
• Where books were banned and statues smashed, songs endured through oral tradition.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• Then, right before serving, the crinkly potatoes are lightly smashed and seared in the same pan used to cook the steaks—a clever way to exploit the residual flavors as the meat rests.
  — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024