Example sentences for: wrecking

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

  • The upward creep of stars' salaries, and producers' complaints that it was wrecking the movies, have both been going on since the film industry began.

  • But I do hope that your characterization of Jordan as the wily veteran who takes a wrecking ball to today's "20-something, multi-millionaire, 'What?

  • In this spirit, the lead paragraph of the Journal's earthquake article merits quoting in full: "A powerful 45-second earthquake cut a swath through Turkey's industrial heartland, killing thousands of people, shutting businesses, wrecking major power lines and jolting national confidence just as the economy showed signs of leaving 1999's recession behind."

  • Most of the planters left the islands and depression returned, only partly relieved by “wrecking,” the freelance business of salvaging cargo from the ships forever running aground in the dangerous Bahamian waters.

  • To readers of American newspapers, however, particularly the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Fish is the symbol of how the left is wrecking American universities.


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