Sentence examples for wrecked towns from inspiring English sources

The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011 killed thousands of people and wrecked towns and villages along the coast.

Just as the death of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, persuaded many non-black people to read "Between the World and Me," so the success of Donald Trump has persuaded many people who have never visited the wrecked towns of the Rust Belt to read "Hillbilly Elegy".

Just over six months have passed since a huge tsunami slammed into northeastern Japan, killing thousands of people and wrecking towns and villages along the coast.

THE NEWS Flash floods and mudslides in the mountains north and northeast of Rio de Janeiro killed more than 400 people and wrecked whole towns.

Watching helplessly as nature's fury wrecked thriving towns in coastal Japan was one such experience.

Many of Trump's followers are bigots, no doubt, but many more are probably excited by the prospect of a president who seems to mean it when he denounces our trade agreements and promises to bring the hammer down on the CEO that fired you and wrecked your town, unlike Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

As many as 135 tornadoes were reported on Wednesday, wrecking homes, towns and lives.

The result is spiralling chaos, with thousands dead, towns wrecked and more than 400,000 of Libya's 6 million population displaced.

Audiences know him as a finger-jabbing, cut-the-crap Republican who defied his party to take Mr Obama round towns wrecked by Hurricane Sandy, days before the 2012 election (handing a propaganda gift to the president, conservatives growled).

Powerful storms stretching from the US Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes in the north wrecked two small towns and killed at least 28 people as the system tore roofs off schools and homes and damaged a maximum-security prison.

J.D. Vance, in his moving book (Hillbilly Elegy, part-memoir, part-elegy), offered that the church was the only social support left for towns wrecked by a lack of work.