Example Sentences

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The heat content in the deeper ocean worldwide has been smashing records.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2023

It might, though, turn into a celebration for the hosts if 20-year-old Shoma Sato, who has been smashing Japanese national records this year, maintains his form.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2021

That is not to write off the blockbusting Wales centre, the doctor hewn from granite who has been smashing it up the middle for Wales for nigh on a decade.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2017

The Large Hadron Collider, near Geneva, has been smashing particles in an effort to discern what the universe is made of, but the physicists are nowhere close to nailing that down.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2014

The best automobile drivers in the world will be there—St. Clare, Dublan, Osterhout, and—and—best of all, Dan Dacy, the American, who has been smashing all of the old records.

From The Boy Scout Fire Fighters by Crump, Irving