wrecker

Example Sentences

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“Maxx remains on track to return during the offseason program and will undoubtedly return as the dominant game wrecker he has been these past seven seasons,” Crosby’s agent, CJ LaBoy, wrote on X.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

“We have worked a lot of theft cases over the years, but this one definitely takes first place in the heavyweight category,” Sheriff John Shearon’s office said in a statement, thanking the wrecker service.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 2022

Each truck requires its own wrecker and hooking up a wrecker to a truck takes about an hour, assuming the driver is present and co-operating.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2022

"He’s a game wrecker," Steelers safety Minkah Fitzpatrick says of Watt, who was precisely that against the Ravens.

From Fox News • Dec. 8, 2021

Two men in coveralls stretched a thick steel cable with a hook from the back of the wrecker down toward the brush at the edge of the river.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith