Sentence examples for a local wreck from inspiring English sources
The cloister of the Jerónimos, as it's called, long a local wreck, became cannon fodder for the French 200 years ago and was left to crumble under Franco.
And for the last year, it has attracted scientist-divers from the New York Aquarium, who are documenting the Lightburne and other local wrecks to help with the design of a new 50,000-square-foot, 500,000-gallon, $150-million exhibit about New York's waters.
Be sure to see the display about local wrecks.
But many places have succumbed to the wrecking ball, including, oddly enough, the local wrecking-ball company.
At Colonial Beach along the Potomac River, the surge flooded the town with 4 feet of water and wrecked a local amusement park.
On a bitterly cold day in March 1986, I followed a local Realtor into the 13 wrecks I could afford.
The company contacted a local archaeology firm, which brought the wreck to the city's attention.
A local diver raced to the scene of the wreck, but there was no one left alive.
A local deputy said the scene of the crash "looked more like a plane crash than a car wreck".
A reporter with a local newspaper, Rashah McChesney of The Peninsula Clarion, captured the scene a few hours after the crash occurred: Fixed-wing plane wrecked at Soldotna airport.
In 1959, CFJR, a local radio station, hired him as a member of its news department; many of his stories, including his coverage of a local train wreck, were picked up by the CBC.
