Sentence examples for wreck from inspiring English sources

Next door, his neighbour Sunday's shop was an equally smouldering wreck.

Other options for active visitors include snorkelling – try Deep Bay, where there is a 100-year-old wreck; diving at Cades Reef (jollydive.com); exploring old fortifications such as Fort Berkeley; and taking the ferry to neighbouring Barbuda to see the frigate bird colony, caves and pink-sand beaches.

I'm a wreck and I need a stiff drink.

Ewen MacAskill reports: Obama either has a lot of confidence in Biden or does not want to watch a train wreck.

No matter how hard the party leaders strain and push – no matter how many giant limestone tablets they sacrifice in the name of awful garden design – the best they can hope for is an invitation to the clandestine post-election government-forming meetings that will ultimately wreck their reputations and break the hearts of their supporters.

He was meant to have folded by now, to have crumbled under the pressure and turned into a gaffe-prone wreck.

When coastguard divers began an inspection of the area around the wreck, they found 20 more bodies underwater.

The "terrorists" may be ready to wreck this world for love of another, but the warriors on terror are just as ready to wreck their own democratic world out of hatred for the Muslim other.

"Clicking on a train wreck just pours gasoline on it and makes it worse.

Standing in the burned-out wreck of the renowned Mackintosh library, where the symphony of cabinetry has been reduced to blackened brick walls and a few charcoal stumps, it looks as if Vesuvius could easily have erupted.

No. I've never had … knock on wood [searches for a bit of wood] … knock on something … I've never had a wreck but I kind of bump into things a lot.