a wreck
Example Sentences
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Nearly 50 years after the ship’s sinking, a new generation discovered it like a wreck in dark waters.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2025
Future me is kind of a wreck, actually.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
The galley-style kitchen had two burners that only sometimes worked and was a wreck.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2025
That night - alone in a hotel room in Glasgow - I was a wreck.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
This thing we were riding wasn’t a monster or a wreck or a whale— “It’s a U-boat!”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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