wreck
Example Sentences
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The fire also destroyed two historic structures — Johnson’s Lee Equipment Shed and Wreck Line Camp Cabin — as well as a storage building and a wind shelter at Water Canyon Campground.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
The only shipwreck of its type known to have survived, the Pin Wreck was discovered 35 years ago.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 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
His book takes its title from the lyrics of Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” the 1976 folk-rock song that romanticized and immortalized the disaster.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
Just then, Wynn appeared, still wearing his uniform from working at the new Wreck O Mend, an auto repair shop in the SmartMart center.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
Vocabulary lists containing wreck
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