wreck

Example Sentences

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"She was a nervous wreck. We didn't like him."

From BBC

"It wrecks people's lives at no fault of their own."

From BBC

It was tempting to see them as a wrecking crew, with several resembling another new team in town, the football Rams.

From Los Angeles Times

The barber chair, the locus of Sweeney’s revenge on the heartless cruelty of a Victorian London that wrecked his life, isn’t the elaborate contraption of other productions.

From Los Angeles Times

“Because if the mountain blows up, it’s going to wreck our instrument.”

From Literature