Sentence examples for wreck away from inspiring English sources

The chairman of the railroad, John Robert Smith, who is the mayor of Meridian, Miss., said: "We were one wreck away from not having enough equipment to run a full complement on every line.

I was a blubbering wreck, crying away in the corner of the opera house by myself".

Still, their home is a pristine palace compared with the weather-beaten wreck just steps away, where sheets hang in the windows, and weeds clot the grass.

Neighbors watched as their sons' and daughters' classmates, boisterous participants in a neighborhood snowball fight a few weeks ago, were dragged from the smoky wreck and whisked away in an ambulance.

But with the greatest growth the city has seen since the industrial revolution lying ahead, the prospect of Manchester taking an irreversible step too far in the destruction of its heritage is only a few wrecking-ball swings away.

In spite of the chimp's increasing sophistication, the climactic, vast and trunkless Statue of Liberty, buried in sand and defining human civilisation as a forgotten colossal wreck, remains many winters away.

The Saatchi brothers, who similarly allowed runaway ambition to wreck their company, walked away from their mess; Sorrell painfully dragged his company to safety.

It was local businessman Ilya Lazarenko who sent his crane to drag away the wreck.

Not only for Gordon -- on whom it eats away, helping wreck his family -- but for the city as well.

Just more than two and a half hours after the crash, Alvimedica was a mile away from the wreck scene, where it stayed until the Vestas crew was safely off the boat.

Members of the Soviet militia made great shows of wrecking stills and hauling away bootleggers.