smashup

Example Sentences

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Before the smashup began, the Indian Plate varied in thickness and composition, which helps explain the crescent shape of the 2500-kilometer-long Himalayan front.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 9, 2024

Because the event likely battered Uranus’s interior, an orbiter that can detect fluctuations in the planet’s gravitational field would be able to map any internal anomalies created by the giant smashup.

From Scientific American • Mar. 30, 2023

Several valuable vehicles are arriving at — or leaving — the museum today, a coincidental calendar smashup that has Yates ping-ponging between projects.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2023

A smashup in Italy sent Verstappen’s car airborne and it came dangerously close to crushing Hamilton’s head if not for the halo bar over the cockpit.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2021

"Indeed, you may be glad to get a fellow when you find yourselves in a good and proper smashup," declared Jack, "and I predict a smash-up about every other mile."

From The Motor Girls on a Tour by Penrose, Margaret