How To Use Wreck In A Sentence

Many of the wrecks around our coasts are either mine or torpedo victims, and either way there is a colossal bang, the ship gets a big chunk blown out of it and the rest lands in a heap nearby.
Oddly, these TV wreck detectives are always trying to find out something which the experienced real divers nannying them around the wreck discovered when they first dived the ship 20 years ago.
It was the last big wreck of the steam era on the C.P.R., occurring shortly before I began railroading.
The airport runway is lined with the rusted wrecks of other planes cannibalized for parts.
No longer will I worry about favorites wrecking their seasons with three bad games.

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He stared in dumb misery at the wreckage of the car.
The tide had washed up cargo from the wrecked ship.
The stress she had been under at work reduced her to a nervous/quivering wreck.
Scabbards, broken arms, artillery horses, wrecks of gun carriages, and bloody garments strewed the scene.
The dealer was just going to give it to the wreckers but I went and rescued it.
The ambulance that followed was wrecked, panels ripped off and the front crumpled by the crowds. Times, Sunday Times
There's no point throwing a tantrum if the promised treasure wreck turns out to be a wreck-shaped boulder or a manky old barge.
The mangled wreckage of the stricken craft was such that rescue teams had not found him. The Sun
Snorkelers can have a grand time floating just 30 feet above the stern, watching the divers below and the thousands of fish that live in the wreck.
There was an awkward semicircle of wheeled vehicles arranged around the wreck, all black and white with lights on.
Or, the lift wreckage would become mangled inside the tubing, preventing any further use of that tube.
The final image was a still they had recovered from somewhere of the burnt-out wreck of Allen's van. LOST SUMMER
Currently the at-risk register covers a national view of archaeology, monuments, gardens, conservation areas, places of worship, wrecks and battlefields. Times, Sunday Times
The Democratic political calculation with ObamaCare is the proverbial boiling frog: Gradually introduce a health-care entitlement by hiding the true costs, hook the middle class on new subsidies until they become unrepealable, but try to delay the adverse consequences and major new tax hikes so voters don't make the connection between their policy and the economic wreckage. The ObamaCare Writedowns
On one wreck off the south coast we saw huge lobsters scuttling across the ship. Times, Sunday Times
Bunbury was staring in awful fascination at Windrush, who opened his mouth to wreck the entire con - hook, line and sinker. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
The dig, which began Monday, was a second priority for the divers, whose main goal was to survey the shipwreck site for storm damage.
This wrecked flood control, municipal and industrial water storage, irrigation and hydroelectric power.
Since then, I've put some more thought into it and probably the easiest way of making a bow prod is to get an old leaf spring from a car wrecker.
While waiting for the wrecked car to emerge from parc ferm at 08.30 on race morning, the team removed the engine from the spare chassis in readiness to receive the Mercedes V8 and transmission from the crashed car. Chequered Conflict
Divers were sent down to try and locate the wreck.
It showed the twisted remains of a wrecked car, a shattered windshield, and a small body face down, arms and legs wildly akimbo.
So ended the memorable 14th of August: it will be, doubtless, remembered by many with far from pleasant feelings; and some who have been "gulled" in England may thank Mr. Petersen that a carrier-pigeon freighted with a cock-and-bull story of blood, fire, wreck, and murder, was not despatched on that memorable day. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51
Putting a world-class tax dodger at the controls of our sputtering economy has all the makings of a world-class train wreck.
The referees and their assistants look like nervous wrecks before the match. Times, Sunday Times
If one is in a car wreck, incompact aced, and need immediate medical attention one in not in a position to negotiate price and availability. Techdirt
The crew took the Pacific Emerald for wrecking but the second part of the settlement was never honoured.
So many ships have foundered along this coast, driven onto its reefs by storms or lured there by wreckers ' lights, that pieces from Spanish galleons still wash up with the tide.
Last week, the Australian navy took family members of the lost crew members out to the wreck site, where they held a ceremony and dropped wreaths into the water.
Investigators are still studying the home's wreckage to find the cause of a gas leak which ignited when central heating was turned on. The Sun
The place was a complete wreck, a skeleton, there was nothing there - it was just gutted.
For three weeks a big operation went on to recover the wreckage from the sea bed.
For me, therefore, Meursault is not a piece of social wreckage, but a poor and naked man enamored of a sun that leaves no shadows. Classics of Confusion
Our hero grew less fearful of a wreck And took a little stroll upon the deck. The Times Literary Supplement
With the help of his faithful spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures up a great storm causing a shipwreck on the shore nearby.
It was a welcome return to the big stage for Parkinson after injury wrecked his campaign last year.
But it clearly has "www.cakewrecks.com" written on the side of it-it *has* to be intentional, as much fun as the other possibilities are. Call Me!
Nicola arrived to comfort her baby, mother and grandmother beside the wrecked car and lorry before the emergency services arrived.
His muffle was a wreck, and such by degrees became the condition of all his apparatus. The Land of Midian
The bow ranks were flooded; the whole front of the anchorage was a wreck of sunken boats. A Fire Upon the Deep
Steve up-anchored and obliged, taking us closer inshore to drop anchor on top of a wreck where the lads caught pouting three at a time.
The main food species of wreckfish in southern Brazil were the hake Merluccius hubbsi, the Argentine shortfin squid Illex argentinus and the red-crab Chaceon notialis.
The officer on the passenger side was thrown clear of the wreck and was only slightly hurt.
Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what's left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture. James Lee, Discovery Hostage Taker, Has List Of Demands That Is Hilarious And Crazy
Hundreds of civilians helped in the search, using hacksaws to cut away metal sheeting trapping survivors and ropes to pull bodies from the wreckage, witnesses said.
Public fascination with the romantic lives of our country's most powerful (mostly single) women is fairly predictable, train-wreck coverage that ranges from whispers of lesbianism to reports of so-called bitchy behavior to completely de-humanizing or hyper-sexualized commentary involving pantsuits. Maegan Carberry: Finding a Man's Love in a Man's World
Such fields, however, do not wreck triplet superconductivity because the spins of both electrons may point in the same direction as the field.
Huge dense shoals of fish cover the forward quarter of the wreck.
He also worked as an insurance claims assessor on car wrecks and had car body repair at a local college. Times, Sunday Times
Smoke billowed from the wreckage of the white car, and ambulances rushed to the scene.
For more than a mile the beach was littered with wrecked ships, including debris from the steamer Curaca which was thrown across the full width of the narrows.
They offered a thanksgiving to God for their escape from the shipwreck.
Viola is shipwrecked off the coast of Illyria and, separated from her twin Sebastian, believes him drowned.
The car was a wreck of twisted metal, but they could see the driver, still inside, trying to extricate himself from his situation.
The anchor winch has a large drum on the back, with its axis along the wreck.
The sordid affair had wrecked my life for too long. The Sun
In addition, says the Club, nets laid inshore among the Western Isles would, if lost, almost certainly fail to reach the open sea, becoming caught instead within the islands on other reefs, wrecks or rocky shores.
Economists now fear that the vagaries of the weather could wreck a national economy that has weathered the financial storms of the global credit crisis relatively unscathed. Times, Sunday Times
One intact wreck is of a Firefly aircraft lost in 1956 after a mid-air collision and found recently in silty water.
At the extreme north-west corner of Ngargo Island, near a massive bomb-scar in the rocky cliff, lies a very curious wreck.
Doctors would really have to go after the food industry, the medical industry, and the pharmaceutical industry and we'd all have to admit to the complete train wreck of what I call industrialized medicine. Alison Rose Levy: Robert Thurman: The Sacred Cows in the Health Care Debate
The company operates as the salvor-in-possession of the Titanic wreck. Five For The Drive
Utterson was amazed; the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and amities; a week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise of a cheerful and an honoured age; and now in a moment, friendship, and peace of mind, and the whole tenor of his life were wrecked. Remarkable Incident of Dr
Of Scharnhorst's crew of 1,968, just 36 were rescued from the icy waters as their wrecked ship sank.
They gave the officers to understand that far from wishing to act as enemies, they were willing to afford the shipwrecked people all the assistance in their power; but these barbarians shewed, on all occasions, a perfidiousness which is peculiar to the inhabitants of these climates; when the brig had sent biscuit on shore, they seized the half of it, and a few moments after, sold it at an exorbitant price, to those from whom they had stolen it. Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English
A yachter in South Africa says her trip off the country's picturesque southwestern coast was wrecked by an unexpected whack from a whale. CBS 5 - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports
Marriages have been sundered, careers wrecked, confidences shattered, boners unsprung. Pieces of Lou, pt. 2
The earliest written reference to Malta is in the biblical account of Saint Paul's shipwreck.
Goldman Sachs was a key player in wrecking our economy and causing thousands of Arkansans to lose their jobs and their homes. Lincoln will not return Goldman Sachs donations
But what really catches our eyes is the airplane wreckage higher up on the hill.
The one quality that they all shared, in the end, was stickability - the determination to cling to office with the tenacity of barnacles clinging to a crumbling wreck.
Back tomorrow once I'm fully recovered from the road trip to Stone Mountain, Georgia, the return part of which included six solid hours of heavy rain and the witnessing of a Georgia sheriff deputy hydroplane off the interstate as he sped by us to investigate a wreck up ahead. July 2008
I can guarantee that all the people who have been rescued from fires, or cut free from wrecked vehicles at road traffic accidents, know our true worth.
If diving for wrecks turns you on, Bermuda is a veritable treasure trove of maritime disaster, with a wreck collection including 16th century Spanish galleons, warships and a luxury transatlantic liner.
The driver of the pickup, who walked away from the wreck of his vehicle, was also taken to hospital, where he received 12 stitches to his forehead.
One forlorn fragment of dollanity had belonged to Jo and, having led a tempestuous life, was left a wreck in the rag bag, from which dreary poorhouse it was rescued by Beth and taken to her refuge.
Pictures showed smears of blood, a body outside the building and smouldering wreckage on an upper floor. Times, Sunday Times
If the businessman had stuck the scrote who wrecked his Christmas lights in a cage, perhaps the police would have prosecuted the vandal and not the victim.
Most of the shipwrecks in the roadstead here are due to these south-eastern squalls.
Not one person outside of Congress has shown this to be anything else than a financial train wreck ... but Libs think we can pay for things with "Social Merits" and imaginary cost savings ... leave it to the Left to misidentify a problem thereby ensuring the wrong solution ... vwrtb Reid to Senate: Get ready to work overtime on health care
Like I have said I have a letter from major marcels son who saw the wreckage and in this letter he says "the wreckage was nothing like a weather balloon" it was as thin as tin foil yet you could not bend it or break it, let alone eve scratch its surface! The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - UFO Section 4
It was like a shipwreck, where the resourceful child passenger becomes the first mate.
He has been warned that his behaviour might wreck his chances of promotion.
Here, the wreck of a tugboat rests in its sandy Caribbean grave.
Walking was like picking his way through the wreckage of his own lite. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
He would not have had to face career loss, nor a lawsuit, nor a wrecked marriage.
It was on such a ship that St Paul reached Italy after having been shipwrecked on Malta.
Cameron's documentary shows him embarking on his own expedition to explore the wreck of the Bismarck.
Experts who have been diving to the wreck off Portsmouth for the last month have excavated a five-metre-long piece of wood which they believe is the front stem of the ship's keel.
When an investigator arrives at the scene of an accident there is a single golden rule: secure the wreckage.
'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I am so candid. Sole Music
What do you call a gigantic man-made disaster that is threatening to despoil the ecosystems and wreck the economies of the Gulf Coast? BP touts itself as 'green,' but faces PR disaster with 'BP oil spill'
Fortunately, diamagnetism is too weak to cause shipwreck in this way. Nobel Prize in Physics 1952 - Presentation Speech
You'd think parts from wrecked Australian cars would be the cheapest option for smash repairs.
Michigan's no-fault insurance law provides unlimited lifetime coverage for medical expenses tied to auto wrecks.
There was a considerable amount of wreckage on the surface and a life-jacket with the boat's name stencilled on it told them the worst. CONFESSIONAL
The captain's behavior is at the center of two probes, one led by Italian coast guard and one by Italian prosecutors, who are investigating in part whether Mr. Schettino's conduct after the shipwreck fomented a disorderly evacuation. Italian Captain: 'We Abandoned the Ship'
Sixty degrees wasn't vertical, but that wreck hung in front of the Kittyhawk's nose like a picture on the wall.
One of the great hazards for early immigrants was being shipwrecked on the uncharted Australian coast, where guiding beacons were few and far between.
The aircar was a hopeless wreck, but its radio was still functioning. The Cosmic Computer
If I had to draw a pen across my record," he said, one day, "and erase my whole life from sight, and I had one poor gift of choice left as to what I should save from the wreck, I should choose that speech and leave it to the world unerased. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings
Getting back to the task at hand, he scooped visible wreckage away, wary of the glass shards and smiled in triumph as he spotted his quarry.
The fear is of a repetition of the 1992 events when groups which now make up the Northern Alliance captured Kabul from Afghanistan's last pro-Moscow government but then wrecked it with internecine warfare.
Italo decided not to call a wrecker till he reached me, about an hour on a 90-degree day. Peter Gorman: Car Trouble Took My Daughter A Step Closer To The Real World
Soon, animals that need to attach themselves to a hard surface, like this 11)tunicate and these 12)featherduster worms, make the wreck their home.
A mountain rescue mission yesterday took off for Iceland to recover wreckage from a bomber plane which entombed four men in ice for more than 60 years.
Cargo from the wrecked ship was washed up on the shore.
Hoses were scavenged from wrecked buildings and appropriated from whole ones.
I found myself rooting for Tamara to reconnect in the deepest way with handsome Andy, her childhood friend — Luke Evans makes him a son of the soil who would have had Hardy's vote — and I was shocked by her home-wrecking exploits with a fatuous scrivener, though her heedlessness is exactly the point. A Grownup Look at Lennon as a 'Boy'
The British team found no survivors yesterday - only a body in the wreckage of an office building. The Sun
I hadn't slept for two days, and I felt a complete physical wreck.
Shipwrecked sailors, castaways, and that famous case some time back where a bunch of people were in a plane crash?
Between tearing down walls and digging up floors I was always wrecked.
The story is of the utmost simplicity: after a shipwreck, a sailor is lost at sea.
England have good news and wreckage to sift in almost equal measure. Times, Sunday Times
The said Cassekey also set up his abode in their tent; kept all his tribe away from the woman and child and aged man; kindled fires; caused, as a delicate attention, the only hog remaining on the wreck to be killed and brought to them for a midnight meal; and, in short, comported himself so hospitably, and with such kindly consideration toward the broad-brimmed Quaker, that we are inclined to account him the better-bred fellow of the two, in spite of his scant costume of horse-tail and belt of straw. Stories of Childhood
From a distance he looks like a wreck, a derelict.
Shipwreck stayed in Sgt. Slaughters amphibious tank with the Baroness, hes smooth like that. First Look: G.I. Joe's Complete Cast - General Hawk, Destro, Duke, Baroness, Ripcord, and More! « FirstShowing.net
Beneath the surface the green gloom parted to reveal the foggy apparition of the cutter's mast pointing us down towards the wreck.
The shipwrecked sailor scanned the horizon anxiously every morning.
Some wreckage which couldn't be identified was spotted in the vicinity, after the co-ordinates they'd been given the evening before had been reached and gridded.
This leaves some flexibility for you to pick which wrecks you want to dive, and provides the chance to enjoy no more than one tinnie of divers on the wreck you decide to visit.
John Hadley builds his house in 1778 from the timbers of wrecked boats, while the British blockade the port and his wife, Coral, plants turnips and sweet peas.
Even the rope leading down was covered in barnacles and the wreck itself was festooned in soft corals and shellfish.
It was just a sort of blackened, charred wreckage, smoke rising and emergency services all over the place.
One passenger train south was tied up just beyond the wreck, and in about an hour and a half the wrecker appeared in charge of the trainmaster. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers
Exposed on the Atlantic coast like this, a north-westerly storm could bring some enormous waves straight in on the wreck site.
We stopped only long enough to inspect a clinic wrecked by government forces during their own retreat last weekend. Times, Sunday Times
When hundreds of survivors of a shipwrecked French fleet washed up on the beaches of Florida, they were put to the sword, beside a river the Spanish called Matanzas ("slaughters").
Nine years later his caravels were wrecked at Puerto Bueno - the present Dry Harbour.
Raynal's Wrecked on a Reef is an articulate account written with great attention to the accurate recording of all the nasty, demanding details of their ordeal.
The wreckage was found after a tipoff from a hill walker. The Sun
Impetuous storms and violent shipwrecks occur at sea.
The wreckage was found after a tipoff from a hill walker. The Sun
The word intelligentsia was coined to describe the class of revolutionary thinkers who are at the center of Part II, Shipwreck. The Heart of the Matter: Wilson Versus the Rest
Because of sparse rainfall during the current season, I occasionally got 'shipwrecked' a handful of times but Oliver assures that the ride is even better in the wet summer months. Jamaica Gleaner Online
The precise location of the wreck was discovered in 1988.
Public life in America is strewn with wreckage from the reputations of figures sabotaged by their own lies. Fallout from resume lies can be brutal Padding resumes has brought down many figures
Fascinating to hear how your education was wrecked by the military junta. Times, Sunday Times
Gordon is just happy to be taking part in the Games as a serious knee injury in 2002 threatened to wreck his career.
Groupers, jacks and barracuda seek refuge in the wrecks, while large marble rays cruise the sandy flats.
Shaw traced the origins of these expectations to the wreck of the Birkenhead, a troopship and one of the Royal Navy's earliest steamships that had hit a rock and foundered off the coast of South Africa in 1852. Why must a captain never leave a sinking ship?
Heavy seas prevented salvage teams from landing on the wreck.
He lashed together two life rafts from the wreckage and helped them aboard. Times, Sunday Times
Bearing all that in mind, it would be a real shipwreck for an overwrought orchestrator to take the graceful skiff depicted on the cover of "Maiden Voyage" and overinflate it into a bulky ocean liner. Piano Perspectives, Visions of Vaudeville
We believe the mauri of the reef has been seriously affected and to remedy this the wreck must be removed.
Seriously, It's most outstanding feature is It's wrecktacular decorations---imagine: ROSES "and" FIREWORKS in a synergistic wrecksplosion of cakey- bakey graduational melange... The Sprinkles Decorator Strikes Again
The expedition was wrecked by bad planning and poor navigation.
He was a physical wreck and is looking forward to spending time at home.
But a few less lucky aquanauts - 13 to be exact - have perished on the wreck in the last 20 years since it became accessible to recreational divers, five within the past three years.
A coalition could have defeated the government and wrecked the treaty.
Pairs of bollards are mounted on thick steel plates and are consequently found together even after the rest of the wreck is just a pile of scrap.
That same night an entire catch crew was wiped out by a truck wreck.
If, however, you want to see more wreckage, then from the cave return to the stern of the Mohegan and follow a compass bearing to the south-west until the depth is just less than 18m.
This is one of my favorite abilities, it really wrecks mass Marines which are quite a force to be reckoned with at the moment with Medivac support.
The attache finally tracked your ship down in a small wrecker 's yard up near Bergen. CORMORANT
Salvage of the wreck was made difficult by bad weather.
All wrecks which are obviously not salvable should be blown up or otherwise destroyed.
He used to dive for coral and sunken treasures pinned under shipwrecks.
A brief scan of the first page revealed things he hadn't been able to decipher from the distorted remnants he'd recovered from the wreck. LOST SUMMER
Many were wrecked because of inadequate knowledge or charts, poor navigation skills or handling but also as a result of the unpredictable seas and weather.
The men decide to hide the money until the plane wreck is discovered with the spring thaw. Times, Sunday Times
If you want to venture further, make sure you take the normal precautions for wreck penetration.
If you're in Nukuʻalofa for any time, there used to be a small island ~300m dia.) just off the coast with a bar and a wrecked ship oh and "palagi" means you ;) Don't hate me because I'm leaving.
Putnam's service as a ranger, his capture and torture by Indians, his shipwreck and exploits during the British invasion of Cuba won him military laurels.
Wrecked in 1912, it is smothered in marine life and is home to large numbers of wolf fish, whiting and cod.
I knew she was an emotional wreck, but I was a little surprised when she broke down into tears right in front of me.
Several police officers were on the scene and a wrecker was called out to remove illegally parked vehicles.
Behind the high walls, hidden by a long screen of ilexes, you are suddenly back in the eighteenth century, surrounded by the obelisks and mausolea of sea captains and corsairs, exiled aristocrats and shipwrecked plantation owners.
On his return from a visit to the Holy Land in about the year 667 he was shipwrecked off Taranto, where he landed and began to minister.
There's a phrase for that, you saucy minx - it's called ‘home wrecker’.
The seashore inhabitants gained some recompense by resorting to wrecking, a tradition which lasted well into the 19th cent., and by their own privateering and smuggling.
He said a dredge is being used to bring up wreckage submerged under 11m of water.
I awake feeling physically wrecked but pleased to see that our quinzhee still stands. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
A family's holiday to Bermuda goes badly wrong when they are shipwrecked on an uncharted island. The Sun
Plane wreckage tumbles on to the stage. Times, Sunday Times
My word, some whale," Daughtry said to Ah Moy, as they emerged from the cabin companionway and gazed at this latest wreckage. CHAPTER XV
Altar Q's stone legs are today badly spalled, for they also protected the monument's main block from the same destructive process of groundwater transpiration that left them wrecks.
The beachcombers were able to gather and hide a rich harvest before the local magistrate learned of the Spanish wrecks and claimed the treasure in the Queen's name.
Hope faded after wrecked remains of the ship were washed onto the shore.
Some of the wreckage caused by the explosion fell amid the crowd of spectators.
Who said ballet was only for highly strung wrecks? Times, Sunday Times
Crash investigators have been sifting through the wreckage of the aircraft.
Still wrecked tired, but got word today I'll be retained for Monday and Tuesday, so that's an extra 500 smackers.
Two other ships have been wrecked over this way, though they are more thoroughly broken up and the debris fields are mixed together.
It is caused by diesel fumes belching from the packed vehicles and halfway-wrecked lorries that clog the roads.
For every sin that he committed, astain would fleck and wreck its fairness.
The shipwreck was a harrowing experience.
Sea salmons, sea basses and wreckfishes get very large in size and can be caught in any time of the year.
Because the runway was littered with wreckage, the patient's plane was forced to land in a field.
Dutch citizens returned to their homes in Arnhem the next year, they recovered remains from the Skytrain's wreckage and buried them in Remains Returned List WWII
He has been afloat for three days at a stretch, unable to land safely on any of those rocky islands, trapped on the boat, using a bucket for his latrine, running short of gas, putting life jackets on the carboys of drinking water in anticipation of shipwreck, and then finally limping back to Bahia without having captured a single chuckwalla—which for him represents the penultimate indignity. The Song of The Dodo
The final wreck in our trilogy of paddle steamers has only recently been discovered.
The wreckage of the vessel was found last week on the seabed over 130 feet below the waves.
Besides the reef, the Keys are full of accidental and manmade shipwrecks to dive on.

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