Sentence examples for utter wreck from inspiring English sources

"The place had been abandoned for about 15 years and was an utter wreck," said Mr. Chiusano, who works in sales and marketing at ESPN. "There was no water, no electricity.

Having emerged an utter wreck from the Korean War in the early 1950s, by the 21st century the country had become a rich, infrastructurally impressive, technologically forward-thinking global economic and cultural force.

I was a complete and utter wreck, strung out, and on edge.

Unfortunately, he did so with an experiment that, while earning him international superstardom, proved to be a complete and utter train wreck.

It was in the last years of my drinking, when my life was an utter train wreck.

"I think people like to see the police in such trouble; they enjoy seeing the inspector reduced to an utter, twitching wreck".

This is a reason that the women don't have much dialogue, and the men are too occupied with driving, wrecking, and leaping to utter more than an occasional mal mot.

Other entries are updates of pre-existing words, such as "ghost" used as an informal verb, and "train wreck" used metaphorically to describe "an utter disaster or mess". .

Articles about addiction and atonement often strain for sympathy against the banality of the circumstances: a talented designer wrecks his career by behaving like an utter fool.

Some officials now say they could see a train wreck looming as soon as they read the words uttered on Tuesday by Viviane Reding, the E.U. justice commissioner.

The surge is creating a big problem for the "train wreck" narrative of Republican opponents of the ACA, who have been holding out hope for Obamacare's utter failure.