Ove's first instinct is to run after them and tear that German sheet-metal monster, inclusive of imbeciles, weeds, growling mutts, and wave-shaped headlights, to smithereens.
One, large for his age, made smithereens out of the flowerpots and china because his hands seemed to have the property of breaking everything they touched.
Your digestive system reduces food to that level in two main ways: by physically smashing it to smithereens, and by bathing them, as much as it can, in enzymes.
The idea being, if an earthquake causes the building to shift from left to right, the rod stretch and pull it back in the opposite direction, preventing the building from shaking itself to smithereens.
And of course Arthur Smithereens as he was blown into a thousand smithereens smithereens. That's a good word. I don't think I've I've said the phrase blown into a thousand smithereens in a very long time and I'm disappointed in myself.