Sentence examples for which was wrecked from inspiring English sources

He left behind his car, which was wrecked, and took a cab to a car-rental company thirty minutes away.

Next to the North Shore Beach Yacht Club, which was wrecked by a flood and then rebuilt as a community center, the husk of an old bait shop sits in the shade of a fat date palm.

The Glasgow steamer Ardandearg, from Calcutta, has just arrived here with one of the missing boats of the British steamer Fifeshire, from Australia, which was wrecked twenty miles south of Cape Guardafui, at the entrance to the Gulf of Aden.

So the local government set out to rebuild the temple, which was wrecked by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, modestly rebuilt then torn down when the park was first constructed.

The bell, formerly in St Stephens in Smithton, carries the inscription "Kains 1817" and probably comes from the whaler "Kains" which was wrecked in 1835.

Dallas and his younger brother Norvel built a glider, which was wrecked by an untimely gust of wind the first time they tried to launch it.

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.

Among the ships lost from Rodney's fleet were the frigates HMS Phoenix wrecked on the Cuban coast, and HMS Blanche which disappeared without a trace, the sixth rate frigates HMS Andromeda and HMS Laurel which were wrecked on Martinique with heavy loss of life and five other smaller vessels either wrecked or foundered.

There were general elections in Bangladesh in 1991, 1996 and 2001, which were wrecked by pre and post-election violence.

Officials and ministers from nearly 200 countries meet in Mexico today to attempt one of history's greatest repair jobs: the mending of the world's project to cope with climate change, which was comprehensively wrecked in Copenhagen a year ago.

The international community's political stance towards Kampuchea had a severe impact on the Vietnamese economy, which was already wrecked by decades of continuous conflicts.