Example sentences for: wrecked

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

  • 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.

  • Once re-established in Java, the Dutch attempted to increase their influence and also to prevent the Balinese from plundering ships wrecked off the coast (the Balinese considered shipwrecks to be gifts from the deities of the seas, and felt it would be insulting to refuse them).

  • Unrestrained ocean waves and salty sea spray have wrecked huge chunks of the Malecón, the sumptuous promenade and roadway that traces the edge of the sea.

  • King Béla IV then set about reviving the wrecked nation, and founded the town of Buda, wisely building it within fortified walls.

  • When Chechens raided the Russian territory of Dagestan, and bombs wrecked Moscow apartment buildings, the army seized the opportunity.


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