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Example sentences for: wreck

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Take a normal, clear-eyed individual, Vergil implies, subject him to love, and it will transform him into a physical wreck who cannot sleep and cannot eat because of his obsession.
As Close describes him, de Kooning was a wreck.
Trying to make sense of U.S.-China relations these days can reduce even the most resolute Sinologist to a blubbering wreck.
When the crowd rises and gasps after a wreck, Stevenson notes that they all, including himself, are "hoping for a violent accident."
For purposes of comparison, rent the video of Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend --amid all the chatter is a brief scene of Mireille Darc emerging from a flaming wreck that, as a crash-sex icon, beats anything in Crash . And in the mostly ludicrous 1987 opera-video movie Aria is a sequence by Ken Russell, of all people, that conveys sheer rococo horror: A young woman sees herself being anointed and bedecked with jewels, but we then see that she is in an emergency ward, and that her jewels are in reality car-crash wounds.