smash
verb (used with object)
to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter.
are smashing
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present progressiveof smash.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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People are smashing Flock cameras on the street, renaming the A.I.-powered Meta Ray-Bans as “pervert glasses,” and starting widespread rumors about who is secretly using your data to train their A.I. models.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
“The Americans are smashing through their own interests and leaving us with a bloody nose,” he says.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025
England have been ruthless, they are smashing through.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024
Michael Michetti’s production, which opened last weekend at Pasadena Playhouse, doesn’t soften the edges of the personalities that are smashing into one another, bumper-car-style.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
My tradesmen are smashing by dozens, But this is all nothing, they say; For bankrupts since Adam are cousins,— So, it's all in the family way.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
