How do you use Crushed in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like rough or broken, plus the exact meaning.
Crushed in a sentence
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Crushed meaning
simple past and past participle of crush
Using Crushed
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of crush
- Useful related words include: rough, unsmooth, broken, humbled.
- In the example corpus, crushed often appears in combinations such as: crushed by, was crushed, and crushed.
Context around Crushed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Crushed
- In this selection, "crushed" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, grit, mine, toro, stone, summer and kit stand out and add context to how "crushed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after being crushed by a and 40s was crushed to death. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "crushed" sits close to words such as discharged, explored and freed, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with crushed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A man has died after being crushed by a telescopic urinal in central London. (14 words)
A car crushed by debris after an earthquake shook Cuenca, Ecuador on Saturday 18 March. (15 words)
Add finely chopped dill and optionally crushed garlic, mix and pour into my baking tray. (15 words)
If you’re feeling brave, try the Spicy Kat – chocolate ice cream dusted in cayenne pepper and rolled in crushed Kit Kat bars, or go for the Salty Dog – vanilla ice cream drizzled in salted caramel and rolled in crushed pretzels! (41 words)
The Roman roads used deep roadbeds of crushed stone as an underlying layer to ensure that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from the crushed stone, instead of becoming mud in clay soils. (36 words)
All this changed for Obito during the Battle of Kannabi Bridge in the Third Shinobi World War, where half of his body was crushed in a collapsing cavern, and he was forced to accept his fate. (36 words)
If you’re feeling brave, try the Spicy Kat – chocolate ice cream dusted in cayenne pepper and rolled in crushed Kit Kat bars, or go for the Salty Dog – vanilla ice cream drizzled in salted caramel and rolled in crushed pretzels! (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
Plus, Victor knows how crushed Summer has been over Phyllis’ “death” and how crushed she’d be if this situation resulted in her mom’s prison stint.
If you’re feeling brave, try the Spicy Kat – chocolate ice cream dusted in cayenne pepper and rolled in crushed Kit Kat bars, or go for the Salty Dog – vanilla ice cream drizzled in salted caramel and rolled in crushed pretzels!
Chipseal involves spraying the road surface with asphalt emulsion followed by a layer of crushed rock, gravel or crushed slag.
Clays tempered with sand, grit, crushed shell or crushed pottery were often used to make bonfire-fired ceramics because they provided an open-body texture that allowed water.
Foth re-interpreted stage 2 feathers as crushed or misidentified feathers of at least stage 3, and stage 5 feathers as crushed stage 6 feathers.
The first gold to be crushed on the Witwatersrand was the gold-bearing rock from the Bantjes mine crushed using the Struben brothers stamp machine.
The Roman roads used deep roadbeds of crushed stone as an underlying layer to ensure that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from the crushed stone, instead of becoming mud in clay soils.
A 'beautiful' student who died after being crushed by a lift at a special needs school was an only child who is believed to have had a fixation on elevators.
Abraham Toro crushed his third homer of the Triple-A season to right in the eighth, putting the finishing touch on the 6-2 win.
A car crushed by debris after an earthquake shook Cuenca, Ecuador on Saturday 18 March.
According to the union’s spokesperson, Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, on Wednesday at about 9 am, one of the workers was crushed by a pressing machine.
A construction worker who was crushed and killed after a roof collapsed in East London has been named for the first time today (Thursday, December 21).
A coroner has urged the review of legislation concerning coronial inquests and apologised to the family of a worker who was crushed to death by a crane for their experience of the justice system.
Add finely chopped dill and optionally crushed garlic, mix and pour into my baking tray.
A farm worker has died after being crushed by hay bales on an Australian property.
A female traveler was on Wednesday, crushed to death by a tipper on the Nteje-Onitsha Expressway in Anambra State after falling off a moving vehicle.
Alabama had a 1-0 lead when Guscette crushed a two run double off the top of the wall in left-center field.
All this changed for Obito during the Battle of Kannabi Bridge in the Third Shinobi World War, where half of his body was crushed in a collapsing cavern, and he was forced to accept his fate.
A man has died after being crushed by a telescopic urinal in central London.
A man in his 40s was crushed to death by a robot at a produce-sorting facility in South Korea Tuesday after the machine apparently mistook him for a box of vegetables.
Common combinations with crushed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- crushed by 25×
- was crushed 19×
- and crushed 17×
- crushed to 13×
- being crushed 12×
- crushed the 12×
- crushed and 10×
- were crushed 7×
- of crushed 6×
- be crushed 6×