wrecked
Example Sentences
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Sniffer dogs in Japan helped rescuers Friday make a final sweep of a shopping mall wrecked by an explosion after a big earthquake, as the death toll from the tremor three days earlier hit 35.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
With a voice at times bitter, befuddled and bemused at his own wrecked life, Busby emerges as a self-aware, sympathetic survivor who knew his best work came at the beginning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"Moths, mice, damp, mould, fire any number of things" could have wrecked it.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
While sector giants such as SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin can survive a big setback—Blue Origin currently is racing to rebuild a Florida launchpad wrecked by an explosion—smaller startups often can’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
He starts handing them back to people, and I can see that most of them are wrecked with red ink.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
