Sentence examples for wrecking by from inspiring English sources

The wearing-away of beauty by the natural ageing process is one thing, but its sudden wrecking by a shell or a burst of machine-gun fire is quite another.

She's less interested in the sad little home she's wrecking by sleeping with Sean or in the pain she's causing his "zombie" wife, Aileen, "whose little fat sits in sad, middle-aged pouches about her boy's body" and who wears "very middle-aged lipstick, pinkish and pearlized, on her unprepossessing, useful face".

Spirits melt into air and a ship wrecked by a furious storm turns out to be not wrecked at all, with its passengers safe.

Have they witnessed relationships wrecked by drink?

Selma, Ala., wrecked by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Kong?

The NHS had been "wrecked" by the coalition, she claimed.

Sportsmen and sportswomen have had their dotage wrecked by the bitterness and frustration of being ignored.

These are both formerly strong economies wrecked by political feuding, a common problem in the region.

"You do pay attention," said Rob Hunsberger, a homebuilder who is rebuilding houses wrecked by the storm.

By James Thurber The New Yorker, November 17 , 1934P. 15 Talk visit to the Morrow Castle, wrecked by fire.

Pablito's father Paulo died in 1975, after a life wrecked by alcohol.