smash hit
Example Sentences
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This time around, Song of the Year -- which honors songwriting -- is a crowded category that includes Carpenter's "Manchild" and "Golden" from the Netflix animated smash hit "KPop Demon Hunters."
From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026
The biggest addition, of course, is the conclusion of the smash hit sci-fi thriller “Stranger Things.”
From MarketWatch • Nov. 30, 2025
And Spanish superstar Alejandro Sanz picked up record of the year for his beautiful ballad Palmeras en el Jardín - unexpectedly beating Bad Bunny's smash hit Baile Inolvidable.
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025
Tesfaye had been understandably angry that his smash hit 2019 single “Blinding Lights, off 2020’s “After Hours,” whiffed on nominations, and blamed the Grammys’ opacity around voting.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
In March an oddly appropriate movie had come out and quickly become a smash hit: King Kong.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
