Example sentences for: wrecked

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

  • Anne H. Soukhanov, who oversaw the most recent (third) edition of the American Heritage Dictionary and is now the North American editor of the Encarta World English Dictionary , recalls coming across the word these days mostly in speech, "especially in sardonic and sarcastic replies to negative-context statements such as 'Dad, I just wrecked your new car' or 'This to inform you that the IRS has targeted you for a 10 year audit,' where its use as an interjectional reply parallels similar use of standard terms like 'beautiful,' 'terrific,' or 'great.

  • I guess the company's sales on Monday afternoon and Tuesday were just so awful that they wrecked the whole quarter."

  • 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 war he instigated provoked U.N. sanctions that wrecked the Serbian economy.

  • Marble arms raised for joy in the garden, a slush of sculpture salvaged from wrecked ships around Don d'Carlo's sandstone pen carved from a boulder fallen from that cliff.


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