Sentence examples for wreck from from inspiring English sources
The designation protects the wreck from looting and salvage, problems it has suffered in the past.
His face is a wreck from violence, booze and incautious living.
I was already a nervous wreck from the cars nearly sideswiping me.
"His face is grey, flattened and base, showing no sign of remorse... a wreck from the ghetto," the journalist Léon Daudet wrote.
Odyssey will recover the warship's remains for the Maritime Heritage Foundation, a British charity that received the title to the wreck from British authorities.
The artifacts, Dr. Ballard said, are giving historians their "first look at an actual wreck from a key era of trade" known previously only through written records.
Footage from the scene of the blast showed cars charred and wrecked from the explosion, as black smoke rose from the site.
Davies emphasizes the drabness of postwar London: the buildings still wrecked from the Blitz, the brownish shades of despair and just-getting-by.
"It will purge the rottenness out of the system," he added, and values "will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people".
When it comes to books, Evan takes whatever he can find — freebies on the curb, or sour wrecks from garbage bins.
Their record since surging into the capital is to have torched the international airport (already wrecked from five weeks of fighting) and burnt 200 homes, including that of the prime minister, and wrecked government ministries.
