smithereens
IPA: smɪðɝˈinz
noun
- (originally Ireland, informal) Fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items.
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Examples of "smithereens" in Sentences
- In phrases such as 'to explode into smithereens'.
- The game involves smashing bricks to smithereens.
- 11 is the third official album by the Smithereens.
- Ah, well, another childhood fantasy gone to smithereens.
- Prefer freeing the guilty to the smithereens of innocents.
- Smithereens have a particularly strong environmental ethic.
- I tried to tackle it a moment ago but reduced it to smithereens.
- The Spirit then uses a grenade to blow the Octopus to smithereens.
- The Cliffs have been favorably compared with the Smithereens and the Jam.
- "smithereens," or, as my companion more elegantly expressed it, "into the middle of next week."
- "I think the best use you can put a rattlesnake to is to blow him into smithereens, which is what I am going to do."
- The monkey was literally knocked to "smithereens," and the pieces that still adhered together were daubed all over with mud.
- "smithereens," and was about going to work upon the huge _stalagmite_ that blocked up the entrance, when he was interrupted by the Quan.
- Blow ... to smithereens is too slangy for formal use; it is used in a quote further on in the Times article, and is the kind of vernacular phrase found in boys adventure comics.
- Readers may want to pop a Dramamine before reading Casey's account of the RSS Discovery, a British research vessel that was nearly pounded to smithereens by a massive storm in the North Atlantic in 2000.
- "That's thrue, sor," put in Corporal Macan, who had lately regained his stripes after a long spell of good behaviour that atoned for his debauch at the Cape which lost him his rank; the Irishman now being engaged in serving the bow gun of the gunboat with the utmost deliberation, taking steady aim with each shot which he pitched into the cavalier of the nearest battery and knocking the gun into "smithereens" at his third attempt, though, for every weapon of the enemy which we silenced they seemed to bring a hundred others to bear on us.