smashing

The shells and the grape and the canister and the bullets are smashing through them.

There may be magnificence in the smashing; but the thing is smashed.

If it comes to smashing in the door he will strike down several of our men.

There was a grinding, smashing sound, and the car lost speed.

There was a smashing of glass as it hit the lantern, and the road was plunged in darkness.

He laughed, made a gesture of pulling out a knife and smashing his face with it.

Let me speak, then do your smashing, if it gives you pleasure.

The smashing of a face by an Indian's bludgeon is a serious operation.

Then another yell and a most tremendous cracking and smashing.

The smashing blow delivered on April 9, 1917, was the answer.