Sentence examples for wreak upon from inspiring English sources

He'd been slow, he said, to apprehend the distress that a newsletter could wreak upon a small community.

Omalu's news conference served as a grim reminder of the devastation gunfire can wreak upon the human body.

But he asserts that as an advocate for consumers, his group must try to forestall the devastation that foreclosures wreak upon neighborhoods.

Newell reckons that "250 will be fairly chasable" but fears the havoc that Imran Tahir might again wreak upon the Notts lower order.

While much focus has been on the perceived environmental damage this might wreak upon villages, public managers are now considering the effect this will have on their localities.

"If I break my wrist, I lose my house," said Susan Zimmerman, 62, a freelance writer in Cleveland, of the distress that a medical emergency would wreak upon her finances and her quality of life.

The farmer's wife tells me of depredations wreaked upon her potato patch.

School leaders are in fear of the next decision that might be wreaked upon our schools.

In a montage of flashbacks that is a smudge overwrought, Hakeem runs through every single crime, slight and humiliation wreaked upon him by his father.

The good news, of course, is that, unlike my mother, I can actually talk about the changes age has wreaked upon my body….

As we gaze aghast at the devastation that Hurricane Katrina has wreaked upon the southern United States, some have asked whether this catastrophe was intensified by global warming.