wreck

Definition:
1. Something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation.
2. An accident that destroys a ship at sea.
3. A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles).
4. A ship that has been destroyed at sea.
5. Smash or break forcefully.

Use 'wreck' in a sentence:

• 1. Two passengers are still trapped in the wreck.
• 2. He was killed in a car wreck.
• 3. The wreck itself is a boat from Guinea or Liberia that hit a sandbank here at some time in the 1970s.
• 4. This sighting occurred during my dive to a sunken wreck off Sardinia.
• 5. The storm wrecked homes in its path.
• 6. The widow said to herself, "There—he's asleep, poor wreck."
• 7. We thought of buying the house as a wreck, doing it up, then selling it.
• 8. They still hoped to salvage something from the wreck of their marriage.
• 9. The road was littered with wrecked cars.
• 10. The decision whether or not to salvage the wreck was not an easy one, although an excavation in 1978 had shown that it might be possible to raise the hull.
• 11. The location of the wreck, which is being kept secret, shows that it did not founder because of navigational error.
• 12. The ship was wrecked by an explosion.
• 13. The propagandists' trump card "wreck our brilliant health care system".
• 14. The ship was wrecked off the coast of France.
• 15. The wreck was salvaged by a team from the RAF.
• 16. The house was a wreck when we bought it.
• 17. The interview reduced him to a nervous wreck.
• 18. I was a physical and emotional wreck — I still can't believe how I ever got any work done.
• 19. The plane is destroyed, a complete wreck: the pilot must have died on impact.
• 20. Natural disasters can wreck a community's infrastructure, disrupting systems for months or years.
• 21. The navy is to carry out an examination of the wreck tomorrow.
• 22. She was a nervous wreck, crying when anyone asked her about her experience.
• 23. A serious injury nearly wrecked his career.
• 24. The building had been wrecked by the explosion.
• 25. It was embarrassing and sad to see this man reduced to a mumbling wreck.
• 26. Survivors of the wreck were plucked to safety by a helicopter.
• 27. By this time I was a gibbering wreck.
• 28. His life has been wrecked by the tragedy.
• 29. A coalition could have defeated the government and wrecked the treaty.
• 30. They live without nomoi, and they wreck not of one another, that is to say, each family lives by itself.
• 31. The can exploded, wrecking the kitchen and bathroom and blowing out windows.
• 32. McKee and his team now knew for certain that they had found the wreck, but were as yet unaware that it also housed a treasure trove of beautifully preserved artefacts.
• 33. The car was a worthless wreck after the collision.
• 34. About forty prisoners are still barricaded inside the wrecked buildings.
• 35. The wreck was raised from the seabed in June 2000.
• 36. I was a gibbering wreck by this stage.
• 37. A one-mile area around the wreck is still off limits.
• 38. By the time the police arrived, I was a nervous wreck.
• 39. What would he tell his parents if he had a wreck?
• 40. Years of civil war have wrecked the country's infrastructure and destroyed its social fabric.
• 41. The car was a total wreck.
• 42. Physically, I was a total wreck.
• 43. He wrecked the garden.
• 44. The wreck is lying at the bottom of the sea.
• 45. You look a wreck.
• 46. The pilot struggled out of the wreck almost uninjured.
• 47. The precise location of the wreck was discovered in 1988.