wreck
Example Sentences
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“The Wreck of the Mentor” makes for less-guilty adventure reading, depicting a scenario where the odds were leveled by circumstance.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
As the owner of Fat Wreck Chords, the label that put out most of NOFX’s material, as well as albums by scores of other bands, a lack of seriousness was a luxury he couldn’t afford.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
Anything that is found from the containers should be reported to HM Coastguard's Receiver of Wreck.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025
“Nobody knows I’m working out to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” read another on a video with a person on a treadmill.
From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025
Squid shouted back into the Wreck Room, "Caveman and Zero are out here!"
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
Vocabulary lists containing wreck
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