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How to use wreck in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Wreck means something or someone that has been ruined. Example: “He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.”

Examples of wreck by meaning

nounSomething or someone that has been ruined.

  • He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.

nounThe remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.

  • In 2006, 18-year-old Nikki Catsouras was killed in a car wreck in Lake Forest.2015 July 16, Rob Hayes, “Santa Monica nonprofit pushing Google for 'Right to be Forgotten'”, in KABC-TV

verbTo destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.

  • He wrecked the car in a collision.
  • That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!

verbTo be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.

  • Marleen Ketchum was not quite certain if the train wrecked or if the volcano blew its top.2020, Marti Talbott, McShane's Bride, page 112

More sentences with wreck

  • I wrecked my car after a deer ran across the road.From the entry deer
  • The wall collapsed when it was hit by the wrecking ball.From the entry collapse
  • It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it.From the entry irk
  • The shoreline was littered with the floating jettison from the wrecked freighter.From the entry jettison
  • She looked like the wreck of the Hesperus when she got caught in the rain.From the entry wreck of the Hesperus
  • What a brittle person! A little misunderstanding and he's an emotional wreck.From the entry brittle
  • The firefighters had to use the jaws of life to extricate Monica from the car wreck.From the entry extricate
  • Many wrecks can be found below the waters of the Caribbean.From the entry wrecks
  • We watched the derailment and ensuing train wreck with a mixture of fascination and horror.From the entry ensuing
  • When he found out I wrecked his brand-new car, he hit the roof.From the entry hit the roof
  • The rioters went on the rampage and wrecked the town hall.From the entry on the rampage
  • Steve was just wrecking shop on the track; no-one could touch him.From the entry wreck shop
  • Dave got wasted drunk and wrecked shop, which is why he's not invited tonight.From the entry wreck shop
  • When I came home, he let me have it for wrecking the car.From the entry let someone have it
  • I'm not driving this wreck of a car.From the entry of
  • He lost his spleen in a car wreck.From the entry lose
  • Diving down to deep wrecks can be dangerous.From the entry deep
  • I'm not letting an old wreck my good time today.From the entry old
  • I'm not letting any olds wreck my good time today.From the entry old
  • They were able to detect the sunken wreck using sonar.From the entry sonar
  • The wreck brought traffic to a standstill for hours.From the entry standstill
  • The engine wouldn't run any more so we had to trailer my old car to the wrecking yard.From the entry trailer
  • That guy wrecks his car every month.From the entry wrecks
  • Senator Littlebrain's wrecking amendment made the bill nonsensical by deleting the clauses that said what the law would do.From the entry wrecking amendment
  • You can expect to wreck the existing scrivets during disassembly and to need new ones for installation during reassembly.From the entry scrivet
  • Barber, who used the phrase “train wreck” to describe her expectations for the project.2023 August 30, Jessica Testa, quoting Grace Barber, “The Most Famous Woman in Men’s Tennis”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from…. From the entry coast
  • Darwin spearo Mitch with a haul off the wrecks - including a 15khg mackerel.2023 May 19, “Tinny Podcast #770: Spearing 15kg fish in two metre visibility. Shoal, bong and bluewater check-in as temps go south.”, in…. From the entry spearo
  • Hiller aside, it’s like being hit by a cold shower of irony, wrecking the spooky mood.2020 September 10, Jonathan Jones, “Not Without My Ghosts review – Yikes! It's time to unleash your inner Scooby Doo”, in The Guardian. From the entry cold shower
  • Already, beautiful places are being wrecked by an electric vehicle resource rush.2019, George Monbiot, “Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out”, in Guardian.. From the entry lithium
  • Ain't got no blueprint, just a purpose and a wrecking ball!2018, Jhariah Clare, “City of Ashes”, in The Great Tale of How I Ruined it All. From the entry blueprint
  • For a short time, I will be a human wrecking ball.2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 12, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books…. From the entry overclock
  • The presence of a snail could reduce me to an uncontrollable and quivering wreck within seconds.2017, Maria Hocking, “Finding Self Love”, in Strip Naked and Re-Dress with Happiness: How to Survive and Thrive Through Personal…. From the entry molluscophobia
  • The wreck grab is brought to surface where recovered wreckage is lowered onto a barge.2016, Manhar R. Dhanak, Nikolas I. Xiros, Springer Handbook of Ocean Engineering, →ISBN, page 1062. From the entry wreck grab
  • Resentment towards Stakhanovite ‘shockworkers’ often boiled over into punch-ups and machine wrecking.2016, Simon Ings, “The great patron”, in Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905–1953, London: Faber & Faber…. From the entry shockworker
  • Got thoroughly wrecked by a monster, and it ate my right arm."2015, Fujino Omori, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Vol. 4 (light novel), Yen Press LLC, →ISBN. From the entry crawl

Meaning of wreck

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

Full definition of wreck

Questions about wreck in a sentence

How do you use wreck in a sentence?
Wreck is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.”
What is a short sentence with wreck?
“That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!”
What does wreck mean?
Wreck means something or someone that has been ruined.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wreck (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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