wrecked
Example Sentences
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Standing amid the wrecked empty shell of a former mineworks in the coastal border town of Alexander Bay, Andries Josephs, who worked here two decades ago before he was laid off, shakes his head.
From BBC
A farmer who owned a Model T didn’t need a forge or metal lathe to fix his engine; he could simply order a replacement part—or cannibalize one from a wrecked car in a junkyard.
The failure wrecked the Scottish economy, propelling the country into a union with England a few years later, which is how the modern-day U.K. was born.
“Not only are lines of communication wrecked; the very idea of a secure rear is fading,” the former head of Ukraine’s military and currently its ambassador to the U.K.,
The 28-year-old was in great form on the British and Irish Lions tour before injury wrecked his dream of making the Test team.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
