Sentence examples for storm-wracked from inspiring English sources
adjective
Destroyed by a storm.
Many patients displaced from storm-wracked facilities had transportation waiting but no place to go.
Wallis's paintings form an elemental vision of storm-wracked boats, harbours and bridges seen from eerie perspectives and mysterious inland scenes with odd vertical paths.
Victor Hugo seems to have approached it that way in the semi-abstract ink drawings of storm-wracked landscapes that he produced during his dark years of exile.
The answer is always no, but this hardly dampens Hohn's enthusiasm for his Moby — a load of bath toys that plummeted off a storm-wracked container ship in the northern Pacific in 1992.
A maritime misfortune — a load of bath toys fell off a storm-wracked container ship in the northern Pacific in 1992 — spurred Hohn to investigate where those rubber toys came from, where they drifted and why.
And so Heathcliff lopes away into the storm-wracked night without hearing the rest of her speech ("he shall never know how I love him"), and readers are denied the swoony bliss of true romance.
And he gave his reader lagniappe: Last night, in the storm-wrack down the glade, Where cowslips bloom in the gentle shade, My soul went wandering, sore afraid To drink the wine of fear.
And he gave his reader lagniappe: **{:.break one} ** Last night, in the storm-wrack down the glade, Where cowslips bloom in the gentle shade, My soul went wandering, sore afraid To drink the wine of fear.
It's not just the speed that makes this hurricane incomparable with the storms wracking Syria — what a crisis like Sandy reminds us, even in the teeth of a high-stakes Presidential election, is that our government is supposed to be here to protect us, and we believe not only that it should but also that it can.
As storms have wracked the rest of East Asia, China has sailed through with its currency intact and its banking system seemingly unscathed.
The boat was heavily damaged by the storms that wracked King Harbor and destroyed part of the breakwater in January , 1988
