Sentence examples for wreak from inspiring English sources

But scandals that conflict with a person's public image can wreak havoc.

The best example so far is surely hacked construction signs in the US, with attackers warning of zombies ahead, but it's easy to imagine how taking out traffic networks could shut down a city or otherwise wreak havoc.

Earlier on Saturday, federal justice minister Peter MacKay said: "This appeared to be a group of murderous misfits that were coming here, or were living here, and prepared to wreak havoc and mayhem on our community.

She is far from being cloying or cutesy but, for someone who has spent the past few years carving out a reputation in the French film world for playing damaged and fragile women who can wreak murderous havoc, she is actually, on the surface at least, bouncingly normal.

It also reneged on demands for a write down of its monumental debt – at over 175% of GDP one of the largest in the world – and conceded that it would not take any unilateral measures that would wreak havoc on its fiscal stability.

The other fear is of a new generation of veteran militants returning from the battlefields of the Sahel to wreak havoc in the US or, more realistically, Europe.

Here are five Christmas catastrophes about to wreak havoc on your little grey cells: Researchers believe that as many as a third of the UK population suffer from seasonal affective disorder – severe changes in mood with the onset of winter.

I've read the rightwing papers over the last couple of days, and I know exactly the damage that Ed Miliband will wreak if he becomes prime minister.

As well as creating diplomatic and political headaches for the new Tory government, geopolitical events could wreak havoc on the global economy.

The bedroom tax might as well have been explicitly designed to wreak havoc for any disabled people who need an extra room for equipment or a carer.

To sustain this momentum of mutual awfulness, one can only assume that Fifa and Qatar have gained possession of some sort of giant radioactive egg that, when hatched, will wreak havoc across the world as we know it.