Example sentences for: wreck

How can you use “wreck” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The beach was named for the yards of colorful cloth that washed ashore centuries ago, following a trading galleon’s wreck.

  • 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.

  • In the event of another budget impasse, Lott explained, Republicans would "keep funding programs at the current year's level" to "avoid a train wreck" while they negotiate.

  • The Old 97's take their name from "The Wreck of the Old 97," a song popularized by Vernon Dalhart in 1924.

  • What Jobs left out of that sentence, though, is a word that has wrecked Apple in the past and could wreck it in the future.


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