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How do you use Wreck in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like accident or destroy, plus the exact meaning.

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Wreck in a sentence

Wreck meaning

  1. Something or someone that has been ruined.
  2. The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
  3. An event in which something is damaged through collision.

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Using Wreck

  • The main meaning on this page is: Something or someone that has been ruined. | The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down. | An event in which something is damaged through collision.
  • Useful related words include: accident, destroy, wrack, bust up.
  • Possible Dutch translations are: botsing.
  • In the example corpus, wreck often appears in combinations such as: the wreck, wreck of, train wreck.

Context around Wreck

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
  • Position in the sentence: 9 start, 8 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Wreck

  • In this selection, "wreck" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, train, historic, premier, site, crashing and dive stand out and add context to how "wreck" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include sloppiest train wreck in history and a train wreck. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "wreck" sits close to words such as boiling, disruptions and extraction, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with wreck

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

And I said, 'I want to wreck a train. (9 words)

And it’s just amazing to look at because it is such a train wreck. (15 words)

According to local news station Fox 4, Dugger was involved in a three-vehicle wreck and died on the scene. (20 words)

Although the wreck is submerged in the sand and mud of the beach (and is even visible at very low tides), much of the excavation was done by divers, for whom a small tower was constructed near the wreck. (39 words)

The Merchant Shipping Act of 1894 also stipulated that any objects raised from a wreck should be auctioned off to finance the salvage operations, and there was nothing preventing anyone from "stealing" the wreck and making a profit. (38 words)

Trump campaign blasts Iowa Democratic caucus as 'sloppiest train wreck in history'"Democrats are stewing in a caucus mess of their own creation with the sloppiest train wreck in history," Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale said. (36 words)

Example sentences (20)

A treaty between Britain and the United States to protect the wreck of the RMS Titanic, which regulates who has access to the historic wreck site, came into force Tuesday.

It's more a train wreck crashing into another train wreck in the middle of a tsunami as the earth spins off its axis and flies directly into Satan's gaping asshole.

Trump campaign blasts Iowa Democratic caucus as 'sloppiest train wreck in history'"Democrats are stewing in a caucus mess of their own creation with the sloppiest train wreck in history," Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale said.

Bianca C, Grenada’s premier wreck dive site and otherwise referred to as the Titanic of the Caribbean, is considered to have few rivals in the realm of wreck diving.

Just a short distance from the wreck site, descendant Anne Frater holds a picture of her great-grandfather John Macleod who was lost on the ship wreck.

The wreck she is diving into, in the very strong title poem, is the wreck of obsolete myths, particularly myths about men and women.

Although the wreck is submerged in the sand and mud of the beach (and is even visible at very low tides), much of the excavation was done by divers, for whom a small tower was constructed near the wreck.

As a result, the wreck remains one of the premier dive sites on the West Australian coast and is part of the museum's wreck trail, or underwater "museum-without-walls" concept.

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In order to protect the property on board the war grave -wreck of Wilhelm Gustloff and to protect the environment, the Polish Maritime Office in Gdynia has forbidden diving within a convert radius of the wreck.

The Merchant Shipping Act of 1894 also stipulated that any objects raised from a wreck should be auctioned off to finance the salvage operations, and there was nothing preventing anyone from "stealing" the wreck and making a profit.

They sent a camera down to photograph the wreck, but the pictures were so fuzzy as to be useless; on a second attempt the camera snagged something on the wreck and was lost.

About 7.40am on Saturday, February 18, police were called to Wreck Beach near Shoal Bay to investigate reports that a man had not returned home after going for a surf.

According to local news station Fox 4, Dugger was involved in a three-vehicle wreck and died on the scene.

A chain reaction wreck that began with a car running a red light ended with a CTA bus plowing into a Far South Side currency exchange and four people being injured, Chicago police said.

And I said, 'I want to wreck a train.

And it’s just amazing to look at because it is such a train wreck.

A robot shows up on time, never leaves early, and will never wreck the joint if it has a tiff with its boss.

A search is underway for a research submarine reported missing Sunday near the location of the Titanic wreck off the coast of Newfoundland.

Authorities said the deadly wreck happened on Wednesday, at US-57 near Batesville, about 80 miles southwest of San Antonio, at about 6:30 a.m.

Believe me, without Tolle’s words of wisdom, I would have been a wreck – angry, crying and stressed during the aforementioned deaths.

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Common combinations with wreck

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "wreck" in a sentence?
An example: "A treaty between Britain and the United States to protect the wreck of the RMS Titanic, which regulates who has access to the historic wreck site, came into force Tuesday." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "wreck" from authentic English texts.
What does "wreck" mean?
Wreck means: Something or someone that has been ruined.
What are synonyms of "wreck"?
Common synonyms of "wreck" include: accident, destroy, wrack, bust up, ship, crash, shipwreck, declination. Plus 2 more synonyms.
What is "wreck" in Dutch?
"wreck" translates to Dutch as: botsing.
How many example sentences with "wreck" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "wreck", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.