Sentence examples for old wreck from inspiring English sources

So far I've made it past that old wreck.

"A couple of clam shells we found off an old wreck" was the answer.

I'm turning the old wreck in on a 1959 Chevy taxi as soon as I can raise the money.

Kate may be the main character, but everyone in the novel has a relationship with the old wreck she's restoring.

Down on a decaying farm in Illinois, the patriarchal Dodge is an old wreck slugging whiskey and gazing fixedly at the television.

The housing, however, is completely realistic: cast and crew all stay in an abandoned old wreck of a farmhouse without electricity or running water.

The interiors of old wrecks have thus yielded bones, teeth and sometimes whole bodies.

Year-rounders worry about traffic and pollution, gripping the steering wheels of their own old wrecks even as they click their tongues.

All three songs were written by Jimmy Webb and contained contributions from Campbell's old Wrecking Crew pals, and all three made more or less simultaneous débuts on the national pop, country, and adult-contemporary charts.

Up close, however, it was clear that most of the destroyed vehicles were old wrecks, many already up on blocks and gathered there by the Serbs for repairs or junking.

(Please can characters in this sort of novel stop buying old wrecks which are "sentient, almost" because "the life force of the previous inhabitants had seeped into the raw materials of the house", etc?) Still, it improves as it progresses and the climax is genuinely surprising.