How to Use smash down in a Sentence
smash down
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The emus helped themselves happily to both, smashing down fences and churning up crops in the process.
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Tom Hawking,
Popular Science,
25 Feb. 2026
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Two years later, bald men with tattoos and gold chains smashed down their door, shattered windows and flipped furniture to bully them out of their home anyway.
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Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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The risk is in presuming that anything subversive or sensational is also true and meaningful, and that anything conventional is a lie that must be smashed down.
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Laura K. Field,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2026
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Nelson’s smash down the third-base line scored catcher Kyle Plasman, allowing SFC to improve to 5-3.
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John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Mar. 2026
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After greeting her former flame with a little Dexys Midnight Run, Hedda meets Eileen’s new lover, played by Imogen Poots, and proceeds to hit the self-destruct button – the chandelier smashing down onto the floor is the least of her problems.
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Ben Jureidini,
Them.,
22 Aug. 2025
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