The global chatter explosion, it seems, is blowing the language to smithereens.
When they came back their fishing smacks were battered to smithereens, and their tackle was all destroyed.
A retired police officer was blown to smithereens in his car at 2 o'clock.
The context of the motion we are discussing has therefore been blown to smithereens.
The exchange rate mechanism has been blown to smithereens.
When the polar wind blew, many pensioners' domestic budgets were blown to smithereens because they only had enough money to heat their homes.
An object that she picked up and then threw down blew her to smithereens.
It matters not at all to people threatened with a disaster whether they will be blown to smithereens or merely incinerated.
