wreck
Example Sentences
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Walker makes a magnificent wreck, though she is brilliant in every mood.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Instead, the so-called autopsy was a shambolic train wreck of missing paragraphs, factual errors, and apparent plagiarism.
From Slate • May 23, 2026
But echoes of the tech wreck are getting hard to ignore.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
“While there were crises before that — the tech wreck, the Asian crisis, the early 1990s recession — they now seem more frequent and less related to traditional economic cycles,” says Oliver.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026
“They got away from a circus train that had a wreck over on the railroad. Grandpa told me all about it. He even fixed some traps for me so I could catch them.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Vocabulary lists containing wreck
"Return to Titanic" and "Talking with Robert Ballard"
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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