Sentence examples for was almost wrecked from inspiring English sources

The original referred to the French whaling ship that was almost wrecked in 1949.

"I'm proud to tears," Pearl said of a team that was almost wrecked by the suspensions and Smith's dismissal.

Hall himself died during the winter, and his ship, the Polaris, was caught in the ice on the voyage south and drifted to Smith Sound, where it was almost wrecked.

He felt this restriction himself: the world, he wrote, "that spidery Witch, spins its threads narrower and narrower, still closing in on us walls of flues and films, windowless—"Coleridge's pursuit of fame was almost wrecked several times by opium.

Chelsea building society soon disappeared from our best-buy tables later in 2009 when it was almost wrecked by £41m in "potentially fraudulent loans", mainly from its buy-to-let mortgage book.

It was a sensation in the 70s when the Tate was forced to close a new exhibit, just four days after it was opened, when it was almost wrecked by an overly exuberant public.

"In the conflict between the demands of her body and those of her mind," Jones remarks, "both were almost wrecked".

Dan Hedaya's performance as Marty the gusher is almost wrecked by too much lip curling between words, but Hedaya develops a funny presence — he's like a primate version of Michel Piccoli — and his acting seems to get better when Marty is twitchy and writhing and only semiconscious.

Well after the damage had been done and he could see that the Conservative party had been almost wrecked, to say nothing of the damage done to the country by Thatcherism - as well, of course, as a number of very beneficial things - Whitelaw, the authors tell us, admitted to Aitken only "under great pressure" that he might have done more to curb radicalism.

But Madrid's halftime plans were almost wrecked minutes after the restart, had Lewandowski kept his cool when Grosskreutz cleverly found him unmarked inside the box instead of blasting the ball into orbit.

The containment buildings surrounding the three reactors at the Browns Ferry plant here, all of the Mark 1 variety made by General Electric, are almost identical to the ones at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which were wrecked by a tsunami on March 11.