Sentence examples for to wreck something from inspiring English sources
It's also pretty hard to wreck something upside down -- you can burn it in a skillet or over- or undercook it in the oven (as with any cake), but that's about all that can go wrong.
While religion was close to wrecking something of enormous import this week, it turned out the goodness of humanity won out this time and women will once again get the same access to breast exams and mammogram referrals they had before.
She thought it would make him angry, provoke him to do something, wreck something, worse.
"We don't want to suddenly go in and wreck something which is hugely popular," she says.
Don't completely wreck something like that because of one bad experience.
Such a realignment happened at the onset of the Falklands war; similar ones have shaped the island's whole history.Discovered in 1501 by the Portuguese, Ascension Island was on the way to nowhere and deemed uninhabitable, so it was left uninhabited, most of the time, for centuries to come, though goats were introduced to give anyone with the misfortune of being ship wrecked something to eat.
Gordimer seems oblivious to the fact that Elgin was further wrecking something that was already wrecked - much of the material he brought back was not hacked from the building but had already been blown off in 1687, when the Venetians attacked the Parthenon (unhelpfully, the besieged Turks were using it as an ammunition dump).
To mother (madrear) something is to wreck it; to "give it to someone in the mother" is to beat him up.
I guess I just don't want to wreck it by making them do something every minute of the day".
This is subtly different to what he was accused of in England, of taking the money and then managing to wreck our excellent chances of doing something at a World Cup, but it shows a similar level of disillusionment.
