Example sentences for: wreck

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

  • 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.

  • Overlooking journalist Kinder's occasionally clunky prose, reviewers are enraptured by his page-turning account of an 1857 steamer wreck and the eccentric scientist who recovers $1 billion worth of gold from it.

  • 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.

  • The franchisees fear that the new owner will wreck Ben & Jerry's commitment to 'social responsibility,' presumably by doing things like changing the name of Cherry Garcia to Bing Cherry Crosby and the name of Rainforest Crunch to Burn the Rainforest To the Ground Surprise."

  • Trying to make sense of U.S.-China relations these days can reduce even the most resolute Sinologist to a blubbering wreck.


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