wreck
Example Sentences
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Once upon a time in California, I went to the Orange County fairgrounds to watch Arnold Schwarzenegger give the signal for a wrecking ball to drop onto a vehicle.
From Los Angeles Times
It said that towing the wreck would be a "complex operation" due to the "large breach along its side".
From Barron's
Demolition work has begun on the remaining facade of a historic Glasgow building wrecked by a fire.
From BBC
Torak couldn’t see beyond the firelight, but he knew that the clearing, too, was a wreck of snapped saplings and trampled bracken.
From Literature
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But really it was the wreck inside me that was putting me in a daze.
From Literature
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