Sentence examples for the wrack from inspiring English sources

They are more than mere comforts in the wrack of the storm.

People are comparatively rare in his work, even as the wrack and detritus they leave behind looms large.

Watching the water rise to the debris of the wrack line, I judged that the high tide was about to peak, so I got back into the boat.

The wrack is harvested by hand, by his cousins, from the beach at low tide every day of the year except Christmas day.

A biology graduate complained to Morrisons after the weekly New Scientist magazine was moved to the "Men's & motor" area of the wrack at the Woohouse Land store in Leeds.

He was the sort to let his sheep feed on the blighted tops of the heather and the wrack that blew up out of the sea, and he kept his heart closed up like a lockbox.

Aronofsky understands and reproduces the controlled savagery of ballet — the stressed, flaring emotionalism of young dancers, the wracking spiritual and physical demands made on breakable bodies.

It was not hard to imagine, late Sunday night, the wracking sound of men and women taking baseball swings with their golf clubs against the nearest sugar maple or loblolly pine.

The temporary suppression of wrack and its associated fauna can have potential effects on the wrack-derived process and food-web structure on sandy beaches.

As the views wrack up, the five-man band have promised to slowly zoom the camera back, revealing more and more of the nondescript wall somewhere in Zone 1.

AIDS, malaria, TB, hunger, extreme poverty and one of the world's lowest life expectancies (46 years in the period 1995-2000, according to the U.N. Population Division) wracked the land.