Sentence examples for wracked through from inspiring English sources

Pius Okafor arrived in the United States in August 1976 from Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, rich in oil but wracked through the decades by colonialism, military dictatorship, ethnic strife and pervasive corruption.

That's a little twinge of sympathy, wracking through your body, isn't it?

Their journey zigzagged through Islamist-ruled rebel areas and towns wracked by fighting, finally taking them through the outskirts of Damascus, where people were seized with new fears of impending American missile strikes.

After a mesmerising set, Blake ends the night sitting alone at his electric piano to croon through Joni Mitchell's wracked A Case of You.

The investigation has sent a shudder through an industry periodically wracked by corruption charges and has prompted many firms to hire criminal defense lawyers.

Fevers raged through his body, pneumonias wracked his lungs, and purple splotches covered his skin.

As storms have wracked the rest of East Asia, China has sailed through with its currency intact and its banking system seemingly unscathed.

I've lived through the massive changes that wracked the news industry and I think our problems – the quick hits on unimportant deals, the intense desire to match obscure metrics – are the problems of the world at large.

Similarly, the Atlas Group in Beirut, founded by the artist Walid Raad, examines the civil wars that wracked Lebanon in the 1970's and 80's through an online archival database that mixes history and fiction.

From the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century through the mid-20th century Europe was continually wracked by warfare.

Those who keenly feel this anguish are wracked by the prospect of a President-elect who succeeded through a con job that began years ago with the lie of birtherism.