wreck

Example Sentences

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Be fretful, be anxious, be a quivering wreck about what might be in America, but keep perspective, too.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Authorities in Malta and Italy have been monitoring the passage of the wreck, amid pollution fears.

From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026

Because Noem was a train wreck we couldn’t help but watch, at a moment when the government would prefer we stop looking.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

The death toll is even higher in France and Spain, where many of the seabird populations that breed in the UK spend the winter, raising fears of catastrophic seabird "wreck".

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

By the time the 2014 expedition ended, divers had searched deeper within the Antikythera wreck than ever before.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler