How to Use smashing in a Sentence

smashing

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• Williams had a smashing debut for the Tigers last year and Pinales is one of the league’s top players.
  — Mark Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2018
• Of course, there would have been little reason to file lawsuits if the Tezos project were a smashing success.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2017
• Kemp's return to the Los Angeles Dodgers has been a smashing success.
  — Jay Cohen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 July 2018
• But hey, February is off to a smashing start, if LeBron to the Warriors rumors are your jam.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• Viewers of this smashing series may well take to heart the aforementioned flood of goodbyes and the sense of a good thing over that descends at the end of season 5.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 26 July 2018
• But that was not the smashing success Disney was seeking either.
  — Robert Niles, Orange County Register, 19 Apr. 2017
• Both look smashing, the brilliance of one amplifying the other.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• This, along with the smashing success of Wonder Woman, should put an end to any doubts that female superheroes can't sell at the box office.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 11 Mar. 2019
• The smashing success of the show House Hunters, which debuted later in 1999, ushered in the network’s reality era.
  — Kate Wagner, Curbed, 30 May 2018
• Another factor that didn’t help was the smashing success of Avengers: Endgame, which is currently the second highest-grossing film of all time.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2019
• Alex Grinch’s debut as the man responsible for overhauling the sluggish unit was a success, maybe not a smashing success but a success.
  — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• Led by the exceedingly cheerful and courteous Marge, the forces of reason close in on Jerry and the kidnappers in a smashing conclusion.
  — David Hunter, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2018
• Additionally, its recent Prime Day was a smashing success, with 175 million items sold in just two days.
  — Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2019
• Because Trae Young’s rookie season was a smashing success and the Hawks have identified key pieces of their growing nucleus.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 3 July 2019
• See which vehicle can take the worst beating during this smashing display of destruction.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 1 Sep. 2017
• Between that serious nerd-history gold, inspired art, and silly outfits, the show was a smashing success.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2017
• For years, drug stash house stings were considered a smashing success, touted as a law enforcement tool to remove dangerous criminals from the streets.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• The 100-day benchmark is so unimportant that the White House is launching a week-long media blitz aimed at convincing voters that Trump's presidency has been a smashing success so far.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2017
• That decision looks shrewd now, after a smashing start to his professional career.
  — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2019
• Then Floyd Central rallied to within 24-22 after a smashing kill from Molly Ottersbach.
  — Kenzie Winstead, The Courier-Journal, 20 Sep. 2017
• From their perspective, the Trump administration has been a series of smashing successes on their core issues.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 7 Nov. 2018
• By many measures, the effort to convert old elevated railway on Chicago’s Northwest Side into a signature park has been a smashing success.
  — Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY, 25 June 2017
• Gingrich said the normal concerns that presidents and other politicians have about their legacies and reputations don't seem to apply to Trump, who has made smashing conventions the core of his brand for nearly half a century.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Jan. 2018
• At that volume, California’s three-decade-old consumer-recycling program should be considered a smashing success.
  — Rachel Uranga, The Mercury News, 30 May 2017
• Ratings-wise, Whittaker's incarnation has been a smashing success.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2018
• Longtime football coach Todd Berry, who was most recently at Louisiana-Monroe, has spoken with enough college administrators and coaches to know that the new redshirt rule implemented last year has been a smashing success.
  — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 23 Sep. 2019

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