How to Use smithereens in a Sentence

smithereens

plural noun

• This episode opens right back up on the smithereens of Kathy's nice dinner.
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2021
• The obvious thing to do would be to simply blow the AI to smithereens.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• It’s where hundreds of people were smashed to smithereens and came to rest.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
• Any such attempt, of course, would get laughed into smithereens on Twitter.
  — Washington Post, 27 June 2021
• In the classic three little pigs fable, the homes made of straw and wood are blown to smithereens by the hungry wolf much to the misfortune of the pigs who worked hard to build them.
  — Jennifer Castenson, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• Because a flag towering over an assortment of smithereens would be too sorry a sight even for us.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• Pretty much every time the Dak Hate Hive finds something to nitpick about his game, the Cowboys quarterback smashes it to smithereens.
  — Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2020
• Fluorescent hues poked out from underneath the weeds: shotgun shells, blown to smithereens.
  — Krista Karlson, Outside Online, 21 Nov. 2020
• The majority of the TikToks take place in school restrooms, where students pull sinks and soap dispensers from the walls, upend toilets from the floor, and smash mirrors into smithereens.
  — Brock Colyar, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2021
• There’s Billiards, Bowling and even a few wacky minigames based on blowing your opponent to smithereens in a friendly toy tank competition.
  — Brittany Vincent, CNN Underscored, 11 June 2020
• If Europe keeps the pressure on commodities in its economic war with Russia, then the answer is – as long as Europe and Russia are sanctioning each other to smithereens.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• The bottom line is that the Turkish drones continue to star in videos shared across Twitter and other social media platforms that feature them blowing Russian vehicles to smithereens.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2022
• Though November 3 is still days away, US citizens have already begun casting their ballots through early voting and mail-in voting, smashing voting records to smithereens in the process.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 23 Oct. 2020
• Those most terrible weapons have been hovering around Verdansk since early on in its lifespan, spurring on speculation that the developer would be blowing the map to smithereens.
  — Dave Thier, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• But according to the tweets, Morgan's public airing of complaints date back to 2015, when the league launched an investigation into Riley based on multiple complaints from players, blowing any claim of swift action to smithereens.
  — Amy Bass, CNN, 1 Oct. 2021
• No bigger than a lapdog, these marsupials are famous for their ferocity and powerful jaws, which can reduce large carcasses to smithereens in minutes.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 5 Oct. 2020
• These are usually cheap but prices increase depending on their cosmetic appeal or effectiveness in blasting an opponent to smithereens.
  — The Economist, 13 June 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024