How To Use Wrecked In A Sentence

The tide had washed up cargo from the wrecked ship.
The ambulance that followed was wrecked, panels ripped off and the front crumpled by the crowds. Times, Sunday Times
This wrecked flood control, municipal and industrial water storage, irrigation and hydroelectric power.
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
It showed the twisted remains of a wrecked car, a shattered windshield, and a small body face down, arms and legs wildly akimbo.

It was a welcome return to the big stage for Parkinson after injury wrecked his campaign last year.
Nicola arrived to comfort her baby, mother and grandmother beside the wrecked car and lorry before the emergency services arrived.
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.
Viola is shipwrecked off the coast of Illyria and, separated from her twin Sebastian, believes him drowned.
The sordid affair had wrecked my life for too long. The Sun
Utterson was amazed; the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and amities; a week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise of a cheerful and an honoured age; and now in a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
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 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.
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.
You'd think parts from wrecked Australian cars would be the cheapest option for smash repairs.
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 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.
Cargo from the wrecked ship was washed up on the shore.
Hoses were scavenged from wrecked buildings and appropriated from whole ones.
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 shipwrecked sailor scanned the horizon anxiously every morning.
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.
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.
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
Fascinating to hear how your education was wrecked by the military junta. Times, Sunday Times
The expedition was wrecked by bad planning and poor navigation.
A coalition could have defeated the government and wrecked the treaty.
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.
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.
Wrecked in 1912, it is smothered in marine life and is home to large numbers of wolf fish, whiting and cod.
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.
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
Hope faded after wrecked remains of the ship were washed onto the shore.
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.
In the second, Whisky Galore, the thirsty inhabitants of a remote Scottish village hijack the cargo of a whisky-laden merchantman wrecked on their shores during the second world war and defy the authorities to repossess it. Whisky Galore – review
An ideal young boy's yarn about the earnest young English couple shipwrecked off the coast of Darkest Africa.
A sequence that led to only 10 points being taken from 11 matches before the turn of the year, a period in which Frank Lampard, John Terry, Michael Essien and Alex were absent and Didier Drogba played despite suffering from malaria, wrecked their title defence and effectively reduced them to a pursuit of second place. Carlo Ancelotti admits Chelsea squad was not good enough this season
He flew into a severe storm, his balloon was wrecked, and he plummeted seaward from the sky.
Little monotonies of this kind form the hardest part of winter travel, they are the rocks upon which friendships founder and partnerships are wrecked. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
Still, even for the eternally optimistic Mullin, having a fourth straight season wrecked by injury has bothered him.
He flew into a severe storm, his balloon was wrecked, and he plummeted seaward from the sky.
The land here is degraded, monocultural olive groves, ecologically wrecked by big farmers and largely devastated by the fires of 2007 which ironically helped developers. Grand ambitions: ecoluxury in Greece
While 19th century viewers of the original stereograph for Reaching for the Out of Reach #9 may have enjoyed the dramatic image of luckless passengers shipwrecked on the shores of Massachusetts, it's hard to imagine they would be similarly amused by the sad Victorian-looking characters stranded atop coffee bales and beneath umbrellas while the crippled ship looms like a set piece from some 3D Tim Burton film. The New York Public Library: New Perspectives on Old Perspectives: How an Art Project Helped the NYPL Put Its 3D Stereograph Collection in Your Hands
The three Premiership defeats wrecked millions of accumulator bets in which the top sides were bankers. The Sun
The timbers and tank for the structure were salvaged from a wrecked ship, the Martha Ridgway.
Firefighters were quickly on the scene and doused the blaze - but the car was wrecked. The Sun
A York scrapyard owner has pledged it will be business as usual tomorrow - despite counting the cost of a fire which ripped through more than 300 wrecked cars.
His life has been wrecked by the tragedy.
If mankind generally are the shipwrecked survivors of some pre-Adamitic cataclysm, set adrift in these little open boats of humanity to make one more trial to reach the shore, -- as some grave theologians have maintained, -- if, in plain English, men are the ghosts of dead devils who have "died into life," (to borrow an expression from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
The operator of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia said it formally suspended the captain who left the sinking vessel with passengers on board. What's News—
Individual scenes are well staged: when wrecked on the shores of Pentapolis, Pericles arrives in a launderette swimming in water and bedecked with old clothes.
The ship was wrecked off the coast of France.
He looked as pale as a ghost as he climbed out of the wrecked car.
This year, the cerise and magenta pelagoniums I bought have all turned out to be bright red and wrecked my colour scheme (which was to have been plum, purple, cream and cerise / magenta).
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. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Queues of traffic stretched back for miles following the accident as the fire service extinguished the blaze and police removed the wrecked cars.
When the wrecked underwater vehicle is in the condition that the sea state is terrible and the angle of trim and heel is bigger, it is very difficult to mate with rescue vehicle.
The superstar's Coral Gables mansion was battered by gale force winds which left windows smashed and wrecked her garden.
We savour it,not sadistically, but becauseit represents the ultimateescapism: seeing the rules and restrictionsof our own society wrecked, inverted andremoved. 2008 July 04 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
His car was wrecked by a couple of young tearaways.
My car was completely wrecked in the accident.
Their political careers were wrecked by the expenses scandal. Times, Sunday Times
We discerned the figure of a man clinging to the mast of the wrecked ship.
Takes me a moment to wrap my brain around the fact that itâ€ ™ s him, for real, not ten meters in front of my scarred, cindered, wrecked-out self. â€œHow â€˜bout a beer? â€ 365 tomorrows » 2007 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Same as the majority, Mark; I preferred the orangey rust-coloured cover with the wrecked starship high overhead. And the winner is ...
Three police cars were wrecked and cops reported offences of vandalism, graffiti and looting. The Sun
Shards of titanium from the wrecked A-12 scatter the crash site as aerospace historian Peter Merlin recently searches the debris field with a metal detector.
Alas, not only had a transistor blown, the short had wrecked the high-voltage circuitry.
He drove into a huge pothole and wrecked the truck.
Then you've established your cred so you can write about the music in question, how it's so amazing, how wrecked it leaves you, how transporting and new it is.
In response, the pilot of the ketch answered, that the ketch was a coaster from Malta, that she had lost her anchors in the late gale, and had been nearly wrecked, and that she now asked permission to ride by the frigate during the night. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
Yes, we have seen the wrecked cars and the factories belching smoke and the blur of speedy automobiles crowding highways.
ROME—The operator of the Costa Concordia formally suspended the shipwrecked vessel's captain Thursday, as investigators scrutinized his final maneuvers with his stricken ship and reports emerged that he enjoyed a pre-wreck meal and wine with a 25-year-old woman. Scrutiny on Captain's Final Actions
All you see is wrecked buildings. The Sun
A bomb completely wrecked the building.
Cast your mind back to 2010. The banking crash had wrecked the economy. Times, Sunday Times
I am like a shipwrecked survivor holding fast to the debris, awaiting the arrival of the scheduled liner.
Upon arrival, they leave their smoking, wrecked rental cars with the valet and proceed inside. Christianity Today
In 1609, a group of British colonists led by Sir George Somers was shipwrecked and stranded on the islands for 10 months.
A volunteer searcher, who said she had had several vivid dreams of a wooded area, found the wrecked car in the trees.
Ordering the telegraphists to stay at then - posts, he climbed out of the gunhouse to go up to warn the bridge, but finding it had already been wrecked he went back to the gunhouse to tell the men to abandon it. Graf Spee
All their lives were wrecked by his evil and then by the incompetence of the police and judiciary. The Sun
He maintained a 30 ton lugger which he used to rescue shipwrecked sailors off the coast within sight of his home on the cliffs at Ramsgate, while also supplementing his income with salvage operations.
The expedition was wrecked by bad planning and poor navigation.
The only problem was that most of the beach had been wrecked by a freak rainsquall that ripped through the area earlier that day. Creative Couplings
Helicopters fly in appalling weather to succour shipwrecked mariners.
When police arrived Bailey was walking off with half of the wrecked sign in his hands and he was arrested.
Yet Larkham says that the rapid recovery of debutant lock Justin Harrison, whose career was almost wrecked by a similar injury last year, has been an inspiration to him in his darker moments.
About 2 hours ago, I crashed and totally wrecked my car.
You just know the headlines around the country are going to have the word "shipwrecked" in it. Chicagotribune.com -
We discerned the figure of a man clinging to the mast of the wrecked ship.
He, a poor shipwrecked man, had equal honor with her.
Firefighters were quickly on the scene and doused the blaze - but the car was wrecked. The Sun
Usually it's made from tin and there are a few wrecked cars in the yard. The Sun
Fortunately it was not hit while we were there, although many large shells fell very near; but when I again passed that way, just a week later, I noticed that a big shell had gone through our carefully prepared "bombproof" and completely wrecked it. The Emma Gees
The original film was based on a novel by Compton Mackenzie, which in turn was based on a real incident in which a ship was wrecked off Eriskay.
The ship was wrecked on a coral reef.
In the past century tens of thousands of lives were wrecked by convictions under those laws. Times, Sunday Times
It would seem tantamount to saying they were stuck with what he had done, marooned like shipwrecked sailors. PROSPECT HILL
Each time engineers were sent out to repair the damage, the vandals wrecked them again. The Sun
There were signs of fierce fighting, with wrecked tanks beside the road; but the troops received a warm welcome.
But the car is already wrecked against a tree, and a beach ball rolls away from it.
Argonauts of the future, or shipwrecked sailors of the past, we move from actual space to imaginary space, from inwardness to outwardness, from intimacy to immensity.
The ambulance that followed was wrecked, panels ripped off and the front crumpled by the crowds. Times, Sunday Times
The gifted midfielder admits his wayward behaviour could have wrecked his career. The Sun
We danced down the craggy coast and ducked into Robin Hood's Bay, the former home to gangs of marauding smugglers who would steal booty from ships wrecked on the treacherous offshore rocks.
Usually it's made from tin and there are a few wrecked cars in the yard. The Sun
There are the rambling Egyptian narratives, the tale, for example, of the Two Brothers and the Story of the Shipwrecked Sailors, which scholars have only recently replevined from the buried papyrus. Introduction
Far from being shipwrecked on the coast at St Andrew's, the saint almost certainly made his appearance in Scotland within a bag carried by Acca, an abbot from the North of England.
There were fifteen sick and shipwrecked junkmen there, covered with sores, who looked very far down in the scale of humanity. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
Several passengers from the wrecked vehicle were taken to hospital suffering from shock.
Lambert, a focused, unostentatious man who created such reality formats as Faking It and Shipwrecked, does not seem too bothered by his critics.
And I've had to promise to replace the wrecked plastic dustbins with a couple of strong galvo ones.
While he investigates someone breake into his house; everything is wrecked but nothing seems taken as if they searched for something. Fear the Worst-Linwood Barclay « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
Technical difficulties without number also exist: the most literal accuracy, which is indispensable -- the artful inuendoes, the artistical averments, which are necessary, correctly to shape the charge ere it is submitted to the grand jury, may be well conceived to involve many niceties and refinements, on which the case may easily be wrecked. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
The vessel was shipwrecked
The four deaths in the Forth area included a double fatality when two divers descended 65 metres to a wrecked steamship off Dunbar, East Lothian.
If she wrecked that damned bike, he was going to torch it.
Scotland gave away a single steal in the sixth and then a further three in the seventh when Martin's last draw shot was too light and wrecked on front stones.
Partially destroyed statues of giant gargoyles were scattered around the wrecked houses.
A serious injury nearly wrecked his career.
Bombardier Roy Brown's daughter Judy Valentini inspects the wrecked wing of an aircraft during the visit to Horn Island.
They took their name from the piece of equipment which was used in the 19th century to rescue shipwrecked vessels.
Then in 1845 the harvest was wrecked by bad weather, and the first blights hit the Irish potato crop.
Firefighters were quickly on the scene and doused the blaze - but the car was wrecked. The Sun
Several passengers from the wrecked vehicle were taken to hospital suffering from shock.
In the end they had to amputate his foot to free him from the wrecked car.
Peter and Sarah tried to follow him, but found only his wrecked car.
Looking younger than I was had the effect of convincing me that I really wasn't 40, or 50, or what I am now -- a 57 year old woman with wrecked knees, which may not be a problem, because as one of my jollier friends says, "We're on the down escalator now. Elizabeth Lesser: On Becoming a Grandmother
Let's make out that we are wrecked on a desert island.
As the water settled and all became placid again only the wrecked and sinking craft remained, alone in the sea.
In front of the police station near my hotel I counted 34 wrecked cars at the side of the road and from the abundant rust it was clear some had been there for at least half a dozen years.
Clearly these are pathways to injury, and it's not surprising that some people have wrecked their bodies due to overzealously practicing their yoga routine. Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D.: How Yoga Hasn't Wrecked My Body (Yet)
The ship was wrecked on the Kent coast.
The lifeboat brought off most of the shipwrecked sailors.
The mizenmast, heel upward, leaned against the side of the poop in a slanting position, showing that it had fallen forward as well as sideways; and immediately to leeward, in the water that heaved and seethed round us, rose and fell a tangle of wrecked spars, sails, and rigging. The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise
Drinking and going 120 mph, he hydroplaned and wrecked, flipping the car at least five times. God Attachment
The first bearer of the name Reynolds came to our shores with the Spanish Armada and the galleon on which he travelled was wrecked on the North coast of Sligo.
Of course our shipwrecked friend had to retail his story to the woman, and then learned from her that the island was a very large one, with a name unpronounceable by English lips, that it was very thinly inhabited, that it consisted almost entirely of pasture land, and that "the laird" owned a large portion of it, including the little fishing village of The Eagle Cliff
The bizarre sight greeted horticulturist Rona Ashworth after gale force winds wrecked a polytunnel at her nursery.
Scenes in the film show pristine cherry blossoms, wrecked cemeteries and ghostlike policemen searching for corpses. Three Ways of Looking at a Disaster
The booking office at the station has been attacked twice and the stairwell on the northbound platform has been wrecked leaving it unusable.
Because of wrecked pensions and the fact that people are dedicating all their financial resources into buying their home actually it WILL matter what its worth when you are forced in dotage to draw on it to put food on the table. Leaseholders Stabbed in The Back
Each time engineers were sent out to repair the damage, the vandals wrecked them again. The Sun
'A dead body in pyjama trousers in a wrecked flat awash with blood and boak, and a huge jobbie on the manteipiece for garnish. ' Quite Ugly One Morning
When the wrecked underwater vehicle is in the condition that the sea state is terrible and the angle of trim and heel is bigger, it is very difficult to mate with rescue vehicle.
a highway full of wrecked cars
A hamstring injury wrecked his bid for a medal at this season's world championships in Canada, but he's now looking forward to going for gold in Manchester.
The blasts wrecked the buses and other vehicles on a mountain road about 15 miles north-east of the capital. The Sun
Our car was completely wrecked by the force of the collision.
The San Andreas last ruptured in 1906, and in doing so all but destroyed the city of San Francisco - the last time that a great American city was wrecked by a caprice of nature.
He peddled myth after myth as he claimed Britain had cut off food supplies to his country and wrecked its economy. The Sun
They woke with raging hangovers to a wrecked room and the smell of black powder and vomit.
(AP) CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A yachter in South Africa says her trip off the country's picturesque southwestern coast was wrecked by an unexpected whack from a whale. Whale CRUSHES South African Boat...See The Amazing PHOTOS
The resources of God are inexhaustible; and in the evolution of his prearranged ages it may be that there will arise upon the earth a race of beings of unforetold majesty, who shall disinter the remnant bones and ponder the wrecked monuments of forgotten man as we do those of the disgusting reptiles of the Saurian epoch. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
The last Government wrecked the economy and the present one has had a lot of work to do. The Sun
The heroic policeman who saved a baby from the wrecked car will receive a medal in recognition of his bravery.
Even if most Americans are not aware that subsidy shakedowns debilitate local budgets, they do know the names of the corporate buccaneers who have wrecked retirement plans and kicked the slats out of an already wobbly economy.
Two others on a SECOND quad bike clipped by the train ran off as their machine was shunted off the tracks and wrecked. The Sun
Imagine you've been shipwrecked.
I was trying to gee them up but I was wrecked after playing just 15 minutes which just emphasised for me the effort everybody had put in.
The ship was wrecked by an explosion.
It leaves too many people wrecked, fit only to veg out in front of the box, eat a ready-meal then slump into bed.
In a field was a wrecked aeroplane, a white and yellow _taube_, with its right wing reaching into the air, looking like some gigantic, wounded bird. Paris War Days Diary of an American
It has taken 13 men and shipwrecked them on a tropical island. Times, Sunday Times
His eyes were tearing, and she could see a wrecked, distressed look in them and could tell he wanted nothing more to do with this.
Firebugs who torched a double garage wrecked the contents, including a car and a freezer packed with food, it was revealed today.
Whaling and sealing were a dangerous occupation and many ships were wrecked along the southern coast of South Australia.
-- A yachter in South Africa says her trip off the country's picturesque southwestern coast was wrecked by an unexpected whack from a whale. - WCBS WiFi
At least for the moment, the Conservative government has wrecked its popularity by pursuing misconceived projects such as the poll tax.
The response over the captain of the wrecked lugger is one example.
That came after a double hernia operation and an abdominal injury wrecked the middle of his 2007-08 season. The Sun
Four wrecked cars were artfully strewn along the roadway, doors buckled, windshields smashed, engines crumpled.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. Edmund Burke
Police are treating as suspicious a blaze which wrecked the lounge of a house in Bedford.
Tall order for me as I had most certainly wrecked my deutschland and sprung my instress over studying him for A Level. Babies and Buttered Noodles
In Book I, his ship is blown off course and Gulliver is shipwrecked.
The rice mill was wrecked by the enemy bombing.
Reims' stained glass gives an idea of the risks: reglazed in the sixteenth century, replaced higgledy-piggledy during releading in the eighteenth, wrecked by hail in the nineteenth and finished off by shellfire in the twentieth.
My car was completely wrecked in the accident.
The wrecked train lay aslant the track.
Two days before he was due to return home he suffered a leg injury which effectively wrecked his high hopes for the season.
In 1528 a Spanish exploration party leaving from Mexico became shipwrecked off the coast of Florida.
A minelayer and ex-battleship were sunk and three destroyers were wrecked in dry-dock.
The weather wrecked all our plans.
the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore
He looks a bit wrecked now. The Sun

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