Sentence examples for to wrack from inspiring English sources

Violence continued to wrack the country.

People said that the company would go to wrack and ruin because they were so expensive.

But a fine church like the Anglican ought not to be let to go to wrack and ruin.

They may have cared beautifully for their children but their politics have been left to run to wrack and ruin.

The economic crash, unfortunately, provided far too many examples of ghost estates, so I didn't have to wrack my brain to come up with images of abandoned and dilapidated houses.

It encloses about eight acres… For the moment, the High Line has gone not to wrack and ruin but to seed: weeds and grasses and even small trees sprout from the track bed… The poet-keeper of the High Line is the photographer Joel Sternfeld.

The fans took to Twitter, making the hashtag #DontTouchBestSongEver trending in the U.S. Most of the fans' grievances were focused on a Vevo record that was broken with the track (the music video to "Best Song Ever" wracked up to 10.9 million views within 24 hours of its release).

Again and again, people came to be wracked and relieved, to undergo some personal catharsis.

We don't tend to want our footballers to be wracked with self-doubt.

We expect virgins of a certain age to be wracked with shame and angst they don't want us to know their dark secret, and yet they also desperately want to end the drought.

The fact that such statements are not welcomed in American public discourse is one reason why the American model of integration and tolerance works better than the Dutch model, and why the Netherlands continues to be wracked by tensions over Islam and integration years after those tensions forced Ms Hirsi Ali herself to leave.