Sentence examples for wreaking a from inspiring English sources

Over swirling synths, the apocalyptic lyrics tell of mutant creatures wreaking a terrible revenge on humanity for its environmental crimes.

Yet the most original feature is its ingenious story of a seemingly powerless person wreaking a terrible revenge on an oppressor.

Saddam al-Jamal, a top commander for the Free Syrian Army's eastern front, pledged allegiance to Isis in November and fought in its ranks, wreaking a grisly carnage in his hometown of Abu Kamal in April.

In short, they have too many other things to worry about to be bothered with wreaking a small amount of damage on a business they used to work for.

Think of Girls' Hannah Horvath wreaking a trail of destruction from Greenpoint to Iowa without ever growing any more self-aware, or Piper Chapman spending her time casually breaking hearts, pimping out naïve new prisoners and moaning about the lack of high-end beauty products in jail.

Wreaking a trail of havoc along the way, the pirates sacked the fortress at San Lorenzo, on Panama's Caribbean coast.

He blazes his way into the screening room, wreaking an identical fate on Leporello.

"If people in the rest of the state knew about these houses and streams, they wouldn't tolerate it," said Ed Perry, assistant supervisor of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in State College, Pa., who complains that the longwall has been wreaking an environmental disaster as it chews its way toward West Virginia.

Led by Chief Executive Gerald Grinstein Gerald Grinstein, the carrier blamed the furious foursome of hurricanes for cutting into its southeastern operations and wreaking an estimated revenue loss of some $50 million.

Another vernacular image, a Currier & Ives lithograph titled "Into Mischief," from around 1857, shows a toddler wreaking havoc in a nursery — a rare image of a girl misbehaving, in a cultural landscape that included mischievous boys like Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer.

France also sent troops to the Central African Republic to join a peacekeeping force, led by the African Union, to try to prevent the rebels who had taken over the country from wreaking havoc.A group affiliated to al-Qaeda and purportedly demanding an end to French operations in Mali seized a gas plant in Algeria and held 800 people hostage.