| 单词 | wreck |
| 例句 | Corpses were not just found in wrecked houses. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Max and I sure have turned all the adults into emotional wrecks. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “And it feels weird because I don’t know if it’s the same with him. He always comes off as so carefree whenever we hang out, and I’m always a nervous wreck.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In the mirror, there is her once-lovely face, looking gaunt and wrecked. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The place was wrecked, the taps were dry. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Park tried not to, but it was kind of a train wreck/eclipse situation. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z It wants to wreck her and toss her on the shore. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In New York, five high school cheerleaders died in a head-on wreck with a tractor trailer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There’s too much blood on his face, he’s too pummeled and wrecked to perish, his bedragglement is the sign to us that he is safe, actually immortal. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They entered a junkyard full of wrecked automobiles, acres of them. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z By his own account, he became “a mental and emotional wreck” and spent most of the period crossing Maine weeping copiously. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But all three of the crew survived, managed to get out of their wrecked plane, and found their way back to their airfield. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She was shy, and I was a nervous wreck most of the time, but we had fun. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Then the broken-down wreck by the side of the road was in real trouble unless someone stopped to offer help. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I was a wreck by the time I got there: 330 miles, two days, standing in the truck with the cows going to the bathroom on my shoes, on my clothes. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat talking on the wrecked ship until the moon got low and the water lapped at our throats and Emma began to shiver. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “It’s like watching a car wreck or something,” he joked. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z If war damage made it impossible for a city's inhabitants to keep up, they would be in trouble; island dwellers who wreck their homes have no place to move. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We pushed ourselves along the wreck until we reached the end, just a fifty-yard swim in open water to the lighthouse rocks. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Six hours, and one miscalculation could wreck a ship in sight of home. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t get it, Dave. Her face gets wrecked, and you dump her?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z We turned to see her pointing at the wrecked icehouse, where broken boards had begun to shift in the collapsed pile. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z They moved slowly and carefully in their suits, as if they were wreck divers operating in deep water. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit was in fighting trim and hard as rock, and Pollard, though still a wreck, was at least strong enough to handle him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And so I shall never have opportunity to have my leather wrecked by college, but I do owe a great debt to Miss Leep for saving me from the elementary discard heap. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z During most of the movie Mrs. Reilly thought about Ignatius’ rapidly decreasing salary, the payment on the trumpet, the payment on the wrecked building, the earring, and the sign. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time I’m introduced, the audience is an absolute wreck. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The King gets sick, all the wives would be letting their hair go and eating sweets day and night to wreck their figures. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It had fallen across the bathtub, which was wrecked but had not entirely collapsed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She headed back into the wreck, slogging through the rush of the darkening waves. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe the bus wreck was in the news, but people forget.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I knew what happened when a ship wrecked. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Comparing the clippers to those old-world wrecks was like squinting into daylight after coming out of a rust hold. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They fought through that town, took it, burned it; leaving their ships under guard at the mouth of the River Ar they went up the Vale wrecking and looting, slaughtering cattle and men. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “By the time his family got him out he had lung consumption. Fellow was a wreck. Never came back to his studies.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He marches back to Persia with an army and a wife, and smacks Chobin so hard for wrecking everything that Chobin flees to Fergana, which is like saying he runs away to Mars. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The storm looked worse than just a blow, maybe a city killer even, the way the clouds swirled and scattered lightning across the wrecks offshore. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I guessed it was my fault that she had had to wreck her own lunch by pounding Gully upside his ugly head with it. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “His wife died a month ago, and his business has been a wreck since. Now that he’s visiting you, can we expect a turnaround?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z My fingers are a wreck; I shred them quietly, out of sight beneath the tabletop, as I do in times of stress; an old bad habit I cannot seem to break. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a bad wreck, or a bad fire,” Father said as he hurried to open the door. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The Circle of Friendship wasn’t wrecked forever, I told myself. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d come where he wanted to be, needed to be, had put that horrible thing behind him, not just the wreck, the thing with Cammi, everything. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The first time Terryl had nearly gotten into a terrible wreck was when she was in Orange County. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I figured there was a bad wreck somewhere on the highway. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z But I met Bo, and now I know what it feels like for one person’s name to wreck you. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A well-documented example from Pacific islands is the epidemic that swept over Fiji in 1806, brought by a few European sailors who struggled ashore from the wreck of the ship Argo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is false heartiness and we both know it, because Cordelia is a wreck. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The one on Edgar Street is a real wreck of a joint, right at the bottom of the street. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z It all looks like a wreck inside, as you’d expect, things tumbled everywhere, lots of busted everything. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z A shell detonates not far away, and the echoes of the blast shunt down between the wrecked houses, and the soldier in the street claps a hand over his helmet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The aids virus and other emerging viruses are surviving the wreck of the tropical biosphere because they can mutate faster than any changes taking place in their ecosystems. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z How to Survive 101 Calamities was the name of the book, which covered what to do in any dire situation—falling elevators, train wrecks, theater fires exetera. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The last thing he remembered before the wreck was being on the opposite side of the road. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But once again he wasn’t where he should be, and now his foot was too wrecked to get him there, and Pax was still out there alone. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Not because we freed them, but because we wrecked them, and they clung to one another in the face of horror. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He starts handing them back to people, and I can see that most of them are wrecked with red ink. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z He and his wife had split up around the time Eric and I did, but he had consoled himself by buying and renovating a wreck of a town house in Brooklyn. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe that’s why, on the morning of September 22, news spread so quickly that Reggie Shaw had been involved in a bad wreck. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Just a wreck now. And you’re only alive because Nailer’s nicer than most of our people. Had himself some kind of religious experience out there. Got the fever eye, now, for sure.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “You trying to tell me you blood buyers got some kind of clean conscience? Like making some petrol is different than buying our blood and rust out on the wrecks for your recycling?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Pima clambered up the shattered edge of the clipper and slipped inside, her hands fast and accomplished from years on wrecking crews. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “Grace is a wreck before the curtain goes up on opening night. Talk about someone who could probably use some self-care right now!” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The wandering look and changed utterance told what wreck had taken place in her once vigorous frame. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She speaks about its shattered pieces, and the way it must go on beating, in spite of being wrecked. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z From wrecks far out on Sow and Pigs Reef, in currents that crossed and tangled to suck the drowning sailors under and spin the surfboats like tops. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Being that unanchored and that much in peril seems preferable to being here, grounded on the earth that wrecked her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Sometimes that girl is like a walking wrecking ball. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, not the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z There all my shipmates, friends were drowned, while I hung on the keelboard of the wreck and drifted nine full days. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nah, I wrecked that thing,” he said, and dabbed antiseptic on my cut. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z They came up ’round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They had died, Mr. Loomis guessed, of asphyxiation; they would have depended for air on a bottled oxygen-mix, and someone, somewhere in the underground maze, had wrecked the circulation pumps. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Why, I’d get exhausted and be a nervous wreck dodging bullets from sunup to sundown. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Descending the laurel walk, I faced the wreck of the chestnut-tree; it stood up black and riven: the trunk, split down the centre, gasped ghastly. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z To Uncle’s mind, Roosevelt was always trying to wreck the big companies. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “That car is a total wreck. Your driver’s license, if you do indeed have one, will doubtlessly be revoked. I certainly wouldn’t blame them.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “As yet, I am as one standing on a wreck and can hardly see when we shall be afloat again.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I raided the basement for hammers and saws and threw them in the back of Roy Lee’s wreck of a car. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They were filled with wounded men, all that could be saved from the wreck of the Causeway Forts. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He opened a door off the hallway and led us through a wrecked office where people lay sleeping on the floor and under desks. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Once they heard a helicopter flying in the direction of the train wreck. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It's fascinating, maddening, a train wreck you can't pull your eyes away from, however morbid. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was a wreck, thumbed and gripped to the point the cover was coming off. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z He and Hermione stood at the gate, gazing up at the wreck of what must once have been a cottage just like those that flanked it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “It’s crazy. You just got your shoulder pulled back together and you want to wreck it again?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to wreck things. And I would.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “You think I can’t get a hundred other licebiters to take your place? There’s kids down there who’d let me cut out an eye if it would get them up on a wreck.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z James Abram Garfield had "wrecked the once grand old Republican party, and for this he dies." Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z After a while, I sit down in the gutter a few meters away and get my mouth to wreck the nothingness that has followed his threat. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z And they keep working until some external force causes you to awaken to a problem—a parent, a coworker, a spouse, or something tragic, like a fatal wreck. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She was crazy about fixing up that broken-down old wreck of a house. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Mind-numbing games like that were invented to take your mind off the fact that nearly 3,300 people die in car wrecks every single day in the United States. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “My people. Yeah, ship breakers like the lucky eye. Not much else to hang on to when you’re on the wrecks.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He stood there in the wreck of the living room, just looking at me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She glanced back to where the invisible hulks of the wrecked ocean vessels lay along the beach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Eventually he stopped wrecking my words, instead watching me with a very serious expression as I placed them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He talks about feeling empty, about the family he left behind, about the woman before me and the one before that, the one who wrecked his head and left him hollow. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Reaching the end of the wreck, Bronwyn guided us carefully into open water, always keeping the massive door held out in front of us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Their seventieth day since the wreck, and he was going to die. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Charging Dr. Euwe as the responsible agent, the federation warned him that it would consider the match “wrecked” if Fischer did not appear in Reykjavik by noon on July 4, Euwe’s deadline. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I was such a wreck that first time we came here. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “No,” I said to the bloody wreck in the mirror. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z God, who made Eden, also wrecked the Tower of Babel, by dividing people. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Nailer couldn’t tell if it was the same ship as the wreck or not, but it was obvious the man was full of pride. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “Accident? You want to talk about accidents? Who was the one who wrecked the Volkswagen? Who wrapped it around a tree?” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Then the wreck of the night caught up with him. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “The other houses. One small hole in the roof—if I fix it, no damage. If not, the whole house is wrecked.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She knew that men could take and take and leave the people who loved them wrecked or dead. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z My mother is pretty laid back, but compared to my father, she’s a nervous wreck. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They nearly wrecked the chariot against the Scorpion; they brought up short and almost ran into the Crab. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “The guy just lost the love of his life. He’s a wreck. Can you blame him for being a little off?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I hardly recognize this place any more, it’s such a wreck now. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Seeing so much further into the future than he did, she pressed towards it with passionate tread, wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The sewer tank wasn’t just empty, it was wrecked and useless—a phony prop in Dusty Muleman’s scam. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “We borrowed it one night to take a ride, that’s all, but Georgie crashed into a tree and wrecked it. We were scared to bring it back, so we hid it down in the woods.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Wrecking and wrecking him and I don’t care. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “I’ve wrecked the boat, I’m nowhere near Zimbabwe, and my only neighbor is a big, hungry crocodile.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It had started with his father’s train wreck, paralyzing him at first, later inspiring him to move as far as possible, to make a new life on the other side of the world. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Looking around at the wreck I’d made, I wondered if someone in the pink house might have heard the honey jars hit the wall. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When she came back to the waiting room after visiting the chapel, she found Mrs. Schein a total wreck. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My daddy remembered riding his horse out there to see the wreck. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was because I’m always a wreck when I do anything onstage in front of people. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Maurice's trousers gave way with a sigh and he abandoned them as a wreck, rushed toward the forest, and then came back again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z There was now less than a week before the election on May 25, and I was a nervous wreck. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “MacGregor’s. He’s a real wreck—his liver’s all eaten up with alcohol,” said Tom in a casual, chatty way. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched the guy line up a dozen plastic bottles on a card table outside Mr. Georgiou's wrecked pizzeria. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He wasn’t prepared to see them wheel in somebody who’d been injured in a serious wreck, somebody who might even be dying. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time hunting season was over, I was a nervous wreck. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In less than six months, I’d managed to wreck both of my closest friendships. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Buckland ended up by losing his mind and finished his days a gibbering wreck in a lunatic asylum in Clapham, not far from where Mantell had suffered his crippling accident. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They came up round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z How many people were on the phone when they got into a wreck? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Once, years ago, for no particular reason, I wrecked the place; broke up the wooden gods like kindling and toppled the gods of stone. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I were you I would try not to anger Count Olaf, or he might wreck that pretty little face of yours.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The memory of last night hits me like a wrecking ball. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z They threaded through wrecked cargo rooms, climbing over jumbled trash to reach the doors that were now upside down and above them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He reported that the strain of coping with the expedition’s aftereffects was threatening to wreck his marriage. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Reggie and his team felt there was no basis for these charges—texting hadn’t caused this wreck and, regardless, it couldn’t be proved. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In the photos, Jim’s head lies back, his eyes closed, a crisscrossing of red blood across his head more suggestive of a bar fight than a fatal wreck. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Confirming the radio listeners’ worst fears, a downcast voice lamented, “They wrecked the greatest country in the world.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He also didn’t feel burdened by the thought that early parenthood would wreck his future plans—because he didn’t really have any future plans. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I gripped the joystick tighter, refusing to let this wreck my concentration. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And when a ship wrecked in the Graveyard, people sometimes died—mariners or lifesavers or both—and everyone on the Elizabeths felt the stab of such disaster. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He held his breath and waited, afraid to say anything that might wreck his chances. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I circled the wreck twice before I spied Dad’s hunched silhouette on a hillock in the distance. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He had been sitting on the wagon seat, taken from a ’23 Chrysler that wrecked near Paraje, and after all those years the springs poked through the faded mouse-fur fabric like devil claws. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When Boobie came home from the hospital, everyone was an enemy, an adversary, a contributor to the wreck of his senior year. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Heard that old wreck of yours finally went under. Good riddance! Ugly thing stunk up the whole creek. That wasn’t a boat—it was an outhouse!” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Unlike parts of the room he could see that had been wrecked by the explosion. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He gave little heed to the wreck and slaughter that lay about all. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I could feel my hope crumbling as if one of those huge wrecking balls used to tear down buildings had just slammed against it, turning it into dust. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “You had a home, and you put a wrecking ball through the front door, Bolliger. Don’t look for sympathy from me.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It is one of the most common forms of life on the planet, and it often gets into cell cultures and wrecks them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This time there were no people around the wreck, no bodies on the ground. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Luke had been a wreck all morning, expecting the nurse or the principal—who would it be?—to pull him out of class. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z When you try to calculate the slope of a tangent line, zero wrecks your approximation process. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Later, as they treaded rhythmically down the trail, Bloom began to feel afraid; he knew something would go wrong to wreck their mini-vacation. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When the secret police conducted raids, they always made a point of tearing things up, ruining furniture, wrecking stuff. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z My first strike was physical, and then I wrecked them financially. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She had saved the man’s life, she said, when his ship was wrecked near the island, and cared for him ever since. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was easy now to picture what this place would one day become: that sad and desecrated wreck I had first discovered weeks ago. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z From afar it brought to mind a bad train wreck, as if scores of ghostly white boxcars had derailed at the lip of the ice cap and tumbled down the slope willy-nilly. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “The reason so many people are starving is because we’ve wrecked the planet. The Earth is dying, you know? 'It’s time to leave.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Surely, Keith, the genius, the man who never ran afoul of anything, couldn’t possibly have been the passenger in a fatal wreck. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Nailer thought he saw the captain clinging to a rail, trying to send her people out to stabilize the wreck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “This” She steps to the side and points at the bottom of the stairs—at Peck and his wrecked face. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z And the word, last year, about my wife's car wreck. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you’re not mad anymore? For how I wrecked the performance?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Candor initiation would reach things that even the simulations can’t touch; it would wreck me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z One night as I sat on the floor rocking, sleepless, deranged by exhaustion, cradling this innocent wreck of a baby, I just started to talk out loud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. He’s clean—so far, at least. He says he’s got rights, but Angel is a nervous wreck. She can’t live like this. Don’t we have rights too? What can I do?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z About two years after Hunt’s offenses, a French ship wrecked at the tip of Cape Cod. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Follow me out to it. Stay low in the water. Don’t let him see you. When we reach the wreck, we’ll look for our man and decide what’s next.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It was all that the remaining crew could do to keep the wreck afloat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I wish he hadn’t wrecked my amazing night.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z So what if I’m ancient and cranky and my body’s a wreck? Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The rest proceeded to wreck the classroom more effectively than a rampaging rhino. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z There followed a terrible war between Cronus, helped by his brother Titans, against Zeus with his five brothers and sisters—a war that almost wrecked the universe. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He stands in his wrecked socks in the trampled snow and tries to make eye contact with the other prisoners, but none will look at him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Not just people, either. Everything. I thought the more things I could wreck the better I’d feel. But then today... Afterwards, I felt...I think that was the last one.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Your dad’s such a nervous wreck he couldn’t stand still long enough to line up for free medicine down at the clinic.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It plowed into the burning wrecks, flipped over, and continued, screeching along the runway on its back before it too burst into flames. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Violent, giant shivers that shook me like a car wreck. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It's like a train wreck, and I'm pinned down, trapped. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z That is, if kids like Denise didn’t wreck it for everyone. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The crowbar to wreck the wheels of oxidation can be supplied by any of a number of chemicals commonly used as pesticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Was she trying to ruin me, or was this a trap set by some secret enemy of the movement waiting outside the door with cameras and wrecking bars? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “No! He has no idea. And I can’t tell him—it would wreck everything. I don’t even understand how it happened. But it’s been almost two years.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z We chased after the desert rats that lived in the wrecked cars, or caught tadpoles and frogs in the scum-topped pond. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I wonder whether Clyde has even had an opportunity to see the degenerates and wrecks and drifters who buy and apparently subsist on Paradise products. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t take long to cross the short distance between the wreck and the lighthouse. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Then we realized the peculiar thing was us.They were attracted to our family for the same reason people will pull over to watch a house afire or a car wreck. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I move past the wounded, past the burning plane wrecks, fixated on the disaster ahead of me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Please. I mean, maybe he was falling for me. At one time. But I wrecked everything with the whole Neil thing.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Our shared room resembled an ideological battlefield, with Suzanne presiding over a wrecked landscape of tossed clothing and strewn papers on her side and me perched on my bed, surrounded by fastidious order. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He unfastened the makeshift saddle pack he’d made, which contained his tool kit and a couple of other things he'd salvaged from the Birmingham wreck. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Bast cleared the wrecked furniture away, stacking it near the kitchen door to be used as firewood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He had, by now, put his pants on, but he looked a wreck. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Living like this turned me into a nervous wreck. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought Ocean would wake up, dizzy and destabilized by this emotional train wreck to discover that it hadn’t been worth it, actually; that I hadn’t been worth it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I hadn't allowed the idea to take concrete form in my mind, but for a moment I had almost allowed an old, southern backwardness which I had thought dead to wreck my career. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s in that wind out over the sea that’s bringin’ with it loss and wreck, and sore distress, and sad hearts. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Barely three miles into the journey the wreck had broken up during a thunder squall and gone down in twenty-two feet of water. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He says the smart humans owe it to every other living creature not to let the dumb humans wreck the whole planet. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z A Trotskyite or a man bent upon wrecking or disrupting the work of the Communist party would have remained within the organization so as better to quarrel, obstruct. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Homemade bombs exploded at the houses of nonunion men and wrecked company buildings and machinery. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z What remained was a skeletal wreck of exposed beams and smoking rubble. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z If he’s so rich, I can’t help wondering, then why is he driving this rusty old wreck and how come his front teeth are so scraggly and sparse? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m supposed to drop something off at the Deuce. And the house is a wreck. I can’t leave it like this, in case somebody from the church comes over.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “If you wreck the room you might bury this diadem thing!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “First time I’d ever seen a captain wreck his own boat,” she said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z To get in a wreck, she says: “All it takes is a half second of inattention.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Ever since he'd been injured in the war, he was a nervous wreck. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The next time I saw her, she was a wreck of a woman, notorious around black Roxbury, in and out of jail. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She was undersized for her age but hit like a wrecking ball. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z In the instant after the wreck, the boy’s mother went chasing after the truck driver. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z More than Miss K’s hair was needed to repair that wreck. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z He wrote a friend: “I’m doing the dearest little serial for Pearson’s new magazine, in which I completely wreck and destroy Woking—killing my neighbours in painful and eccentric ways.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Our father had tried to resign the day before he and Mom were killed in a car wreck. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Jockeys say there is a small, bright sound when hooves clip against each other, a cheery portent of the wreck that is likely to follow. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Thirty-eight seconds later, someone called 911 to report the fiery, deadly wreck. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Rindlsbacher, through years of experience, knew that sometimes there were accidents, but more often, there were wrecks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Later, the city wrecking ball knocked them to the ground. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn’t have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails till I was a bleeding wreck. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Below, his father and his cronies clambered over the wreck with the feral grace of tiger monkeys. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Outside at the edge of the runway, Queenie, err whatever her name was, stood staring at the wreck of the Luftwaffe bomber. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z On my first day on the job, I walked into my classroom and tried to present myself as an authority figure, someone confident and intelligent, but inside I was a nervous wreck. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Violet thought of what the bald man had said, about wrecking her face, and nodded. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The words were a quiet punctuation to the larger sounds of the ocean and coast outside: gulls calling, the surf, the creak and shift of the wrecked ship. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to believe this hillside had ever been the gullied wreck Joel had described at dinner. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Do you want to bring it up with your father? What would you propose we do with it? Look around. It’s a wreck.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z My skirt rose with every pedal push, and I almost wrecked three times trying to hold it down and steer one-handed. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z All the stress and weirdness of the day had left him totally wrecked. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Out of the wreck rose the Black Rider, tall and threatening, towering above her. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She watches him from the window, walking down the block, a small, balding, unemployed middle-aged man, who is enabling her to wreck her marriage. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The night crews were pouring off the wrecks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “But you’re done now. It’s over. Why let it wreck your whole evening?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z He knew it was only a matter of time before this man recognized him as the kid who’d wrecked his balloon. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The onslaught of Mordor broke like a wave on the beleaguered hills, voices roaring like a tide amid the wreck and crash of arms. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She had tried to tear him to pieces, to wreck him, to obliterate him. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z A train wreck had killed off two units of four girls each. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If they didn’t hit the gaps between the cars just right, they’d wreck and become road scabs. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps I was the only person from the wreck unaccounted for. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z For a second, I think that we’re passing a pretty convincing caveman, but it turns out to be a really wrecked homeless guy, his beard stringy and dotted with bits of food. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z "Car number four cost eighty-six pounds—a real wreck that was—and sold for six hundred and ninety-nine pounds fifty." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z And I especially don’t need this girl who can’t seem to stop staring at me like I’m some kind of car wreck. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The wreck of a crashed drug plane sits not far from the airport in Trinidad, the biggest town in the province. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A doctor had to examine Roan—a heavy drinker who had once wrecked his car while intoxicated—and deem him a safe risk for the insurance company. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They would’ve wrecked us completely if Tyson hadn’t whacked them aside with a quick swipe of his pole. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z As the school bombings continued, he spoke out against them; he even went to the site of one school bombing while it was still a smoldering wreck. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And Finn had said indignantly, “It’s our rec room. Don’t you think we’d wreck a TV if it was down here?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I can count them up like the list the coroner gave us, taped to the box of things that had been found on their persons or retrieved from the wreck. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By then, however, he seems to have been a wrecked man. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were wrecking the place, and I had to stop it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Even at night, the wrecks glowed with work, people laboring by torchlight as they continued the steady job of disassembly. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The skiff was barely seaworthy, but it had survived the trip to the island, even through the wild currents that wrecked much bigger boats. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z If we are wrecked, mayhap this bottle may be found, and those who find it may understand; if not, ... well, then all men shall know that I have been true to my trust. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z But after so many months of the cold Parisian winter spent indoors with Vincent, Theo is a wreck both mentally and physically. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “He’s been in debt since the boys wrecked all the equipment last year.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Farther down the beach, the old-world wrecks still lay black on the sand like mangled bodies, still leaking oil and chemicals, still swarming with workers. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “He’s a two-hundred-pound human wrecking ball. Did you really think I was going to stand there and wait for him to hit you again?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z God, I hoped Mom wasn’t in a wreck. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “I was drinking Kamikazes that night. Something terrible always happens to me when I drink Kamikazes. I wreck my car, I get into fights...” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z All were wealthy and at the peaks of their careers, but all also bore the scars of nineteenth-century life, their pasts full of wrecked rail cars, fevers, and the premature deaths of loved ones. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Too bad all this stuff got wrecked, but at least I salvaged the scrolls. If I can get them back to Camp Half-Blood, maybe I can learn how to recreate Archimedes’s inventions.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Forcing myself to watch you die is not something I’ll promise you. You’re my Last Friend, and it would wreck me.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash—all of them—surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered with rubbish. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Clement fled, taking shelter behind the wall of a wrecked hut, but Otto and Mom and I stood ready. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I reached for one of the oars I had salvaged from the wrecked raft. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Striding out into the churchyard, Cluny climbed up on the wrecked gatepost. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Leaving his bike propped against the wall, Alex ran farther into the yard, crouching down behind the wrecks. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “But even if we wreck the thing it lives in,” said Ron, “why can’t the bit of soul in it just go and live in something else?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The house was more of a wreck than the last time I’d . . . been there. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I made myself a nervous wreck expecting to hear the N word or an attack. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Oh, her. Hemiplegia. Half her brain got wrecked some way before she was born so the other half had to take over, and it makes her do certain things backwards.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z To wreck Renault in front of everybody, no matter what was written down on the raffle tickets. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know. I got it in the backseat. Ignatius is the one made me wreck that car, he got me so nervous from the backseat.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And, frequently, the carcasses of burned-out Soviet tanks and wrecked helicopters. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Replacements for the massive coal- and oil-burning wrecks that he and his crew worked to destroy all day long: gull-white sails, carbon-fiber hulls, and faster than anything except a maglev train. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I remind myself that it’s not their first away meet since the wreck. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “I don’t believe this! After the Hartford fire and Hagenbeck-Wallace wreck, that’s probably the most famous circus disaster of all time.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Prendergast read widely and possessed a good grasp of the grip-car wrecks, murders, and City Hall machinations covered so fervently by the city’s newspapers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She told me that her boyfriend, Arlo, wrecked his car and turned out to be a loser. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Just when we’d gone a whole two days without wrecking anything.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “Do I want to love him enough that leaving him would wreck me? Yeah.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Molly’s dream of a quiet summer evaporated, for the house was desperately in need of rehabilitation—“an old wreck, one of the oldest around, and built without benefit of architect” she recollected. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Remember how I said that when you’re feeling good, something always happens to wreck it all? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “I’m the man who wrecked your car,” said my father. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z They swam by my mom like a fleet of small ships moving through the wreck, their sandy-brown skin gliding past her, caudal fins rippling like fabric through the water. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Then, very gradually, part by part, a pale dangling individual stepped out of the wreck, pawing tentatively at the ground with a large uncertain dancing shoe. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Actually, not really. I had the boy pegged as a train wreck. But considering how odd he is, and how sheltered his life has been, things could be a lot worse.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Nailer described the beach and his father, the way things ran on the wrecks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He looked just wrecked enough to get a job at Drastic Plastic. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z A temporary pebble O that just keeps on getting wrecked. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She had a long, bright knife in her hand and had been busily cutting the horse free from the wreck of the hansom. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Two days after the wreck and Reggie had barely left his room; hadn’t left the house at all. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Furniture had indeed fallen; the place was a chaos of wrecked clocks and chairs, and in the midst of it the bulk of Tom Hustings lay, fallen on the smaller figure of Abanazer Bolger. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Pops and crackles snarled from the wrecked theater. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Every drawer is a wreck, every hidden cranny full of dirty clothes and wadded-up stockings. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Oh, I do. And Lew Pants will be down the drain. But not because one of your games wrecked it.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For four years his force wandered through what are now Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana, looking for gold and wrecking most everything it touched. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The wrecked ferry lay 1,300 feet below the lake’s surface. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we laugh, since both our bodies are so wrecked, it will be a miracle if we can get up the next day. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “What on earth were you searching for in that depressing old wreck of a house?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z A part of her, the engineer side, was still looking for some explanation; was there anything Jim could’ve done to avoid the wreck? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z One horse had caught his eye, a hopeless wreck named Knighthood. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry followed, gazing around, half-scared of what he might see hidden behind the wreck of the piano or the overturned sofa, but there was no sign of a body. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “I’m very sorry about your daughter. Another of my sexers lost a child once, and he didn’t wreck my car. You won’t be returning to work in my hatchery.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z There was the lamppost, with one arm missing; there was the wreck of the hansom cab; and there was the crowd. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The taxi driver, a sallow, yellowish man, shriveled like a chickpea with the cold, said, “I wouldn’t take you more than a couple of blocks near. I don’t go to have my cab wrecked.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In the tiny mirror over the bureau Gilly noted with no little satisfaction that her hair was a wreck. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z We went on, choking in an eddy of windborne wreck dust, powdered concrete blanching our clothes, our faces bone white. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He got drunk one night, took a truck without authorization, and hopped from town to town until he wrecked it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z How come when you’re feeling good like this, something always happens to wreck it all? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Everyone returned to the wreck and stood around it awkwardly, shaking, either from the cold or from shock. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “He’s wrecking your game. Doesn’t he belong to somebody?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Alaska looked like a train wreck, but insisted on pouring the last few sips of Strawberry Hill into her cold instant coffee before chucking the bottle behind her. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “It’s easier than you think to wreck a family,” I said. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t ’bout to make however much time I had left living be a slow-moving train wreck. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “He’ll be mad at Kyro? Look, none of this, none of it, is his fault. He’s aged ten years since the wreck. He wears a Lucy bracelet, okay?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I helped him construct a sturdy stick barricade around the periphery so the jungle animals and village goats would not come in and wreck our tender vegetables when they came. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Fortunately, they didn’t pass any cars, or they might have caused a wreck. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Lawson & Carlson says a storm’s coming. Big one. We’re going to be off the wrecks for a couple days. I want enough wire that you can work it on the sand.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z If he left it behind, some of his older cousins would grab it and stay in the lobby—at least until they wore it out or wrecked it—and the younger relatives would stay too. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “I had a dream that was us and somebody drove up with one of those giant crane magnets from the car wrecking yards.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z If the knee was wrecked, there went the team’s star before a single down had even been played. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood behind Emma, taking up the rear of our strange little conga line, and we began to plod forward across the wreck toward the lighthouse. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Someone’s cattle had gotten out and caused a minor car wreck. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z But I did not expect his answer: “The Weaver will refuse it. Unanswerable questions have wrecked Foretelling groups.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The ships that had wrecked in the Graveyard took plenty of cargo down with them, and not all of it was lumber or cotton or rum. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “What’s a captured lad from a bomber crew going to know about a wrecked reconnaissance aircraft?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She’d said it over and over when she wept over the wreck of her useless cake mixes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Where do I even begin with chronicling this train wreck? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He likes taking Henry apart, but there’s something incredibly intimate about sitting on the bed they wrecked the night before, the only one who watches him create Prince Henry of Wales for the day. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Poor Roselle,” Ben said sadly, “I bet he’s been a wreck of a man ever since meeting up with Meecham.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead, the gull-white hull of the wreck gleamed in the sunlight, beckoning. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to play with the other brothers because they had pushed him off to the side, admonishing him, “No, Bing, you’ll just wreck it.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The island was less than a mile wide, a barren patch of sand and rock distinguished only by the wrecked foundation of an old tower used by the Council of Tides. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He and Pollard were dirty and tired and shaky from the wreck. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Rhydd's face is a swollen wreck, but a face and its look can be totally different. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He died, I say, in a car wreck or He fell off a roof or maybe He's coming soon. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z After the first day of packing, the house was a wreck. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “I maybe already did wreck things. Besides, she’s leaving. She wouldn’t want to. I’d be too much of a complication for her plans.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I think caused from the car wreck I had. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They make feelings rise and clatter and wreck, and sometimes that’s dangerous. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The radio is all static—like the sound of the crunching metal of a car, the faint, blurry voice on the airwaves her own, trapped inside a wreck, calling for help. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z On that October Monday in 1937, as search crews struggled to reach the plane wreck, Elizebeth could hardly take in what had happened. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But all we really wanted was to be on the Elizabeths again, even if that meant facing the wreck of our home. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z When the ring was complete, I considered wrecking it again, but the gods were inoffensive, dull. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chavez is greedy. If she can take us as a prize, she’ll call us pirate. If she wrecks us, tangles us, and sinks us, she doesn’t get the money.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Even though Joseph knew this part was coming, he still felt the terror of the wreck. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z And wouldn't getting it as a gift wreck even the best person on earth? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And he felt a jury would be much less inclined to convict Reggie if the best the prosecution could do was show that Reggie was texting thirty seconds before the wreck. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Now, so soon after coming home, he was behind the wheel during a deadly wreck. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I have mouse-brown cowlick-y hair, glasses that are about an inch thick, and braces that look like I tried to swallow a train wreck. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Too stunned and wrecked to move, I sit with my hands folded in my lap. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t matter. My costume is wrecked,” I say. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Deserting the wreck, Ignatius lumbered down the tracks toward the streetcar, the white muumuu of a uniform swishing around his ankles. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z News of such wrecks was received by islanders with a grim brand of determinism; it seemed to many that such things were ordained by God, or at any rate unavoidable. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps Lola was relying on the twins to wreck the play innocently, and needed only to stand back and observe. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Miss Havisham’s grey hair was all adrift upon the ground, among the other bridal wrecks, and was a miserable sight to see. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Then she stood, panting, staring at her wrecked hands until the sun set and the stars winked slyly in the purpling sky. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Worried that it was just a matter of seconds before the canoes were swept away and wrecked, the camaradas screamed for help. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z She had looked so pitiful crying in the middle of that wreck. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like being back on one of the ship-breaking wrecks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I suddenly worried that my father was going to wreck his car on the icy roads. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z From her spot on the wrecked couch, Jinny found herself searching for another hiding place. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “And I hope I didn’t wreck your moped.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “The only way we escape is if we leave them wrecked.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I was grateful she was willing to cut class so that Evan wouldn't learn that he'd turned me into a blubbering wreck. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “I want one hell of a wreck out there. I want that boy to be sorry he’s playin’. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He had spent hours poring over those sleek predatory lines, studying the sails and hydrofoils, the smooth engineered surfaces so different from the rusting wrecks he worked every day. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “That’s him? In the gutter? This is tragic. Carousing, drunken, hopeless, already a bloated derelict. Mark him down in your book next to Miss Trixie and me as another life you’ve wrecked.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Crushing it would be like taking a wrecking ball to some secret museum before anyone ever got to see what’s inside it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Serious insults to the body, the kind of shattering or crushing injury seen in high-speed auto wrecks, are an absolute certainty for every single jockey. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the real world, interacting with other people—especially kids my own age—made me a nervous wreck. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He stared without expression at the half-page newspaper photos of himself, taken an instant before the wreck, showing him coiled over Fair Knightess’s withers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For these three the site had been like any wreck or ruin. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z This from a surfman named Mr. Canning, a sailmaker by trade but a surfman, like all of them, with no name but that when a ship wrecked in these waters. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z They’re really moving now, wrecking each other’s suits, Henry’s lip caught between Alex’s teeth, the portrait’s frame rattling against the wall when Henry’s head drops back and bangs into it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She started walking across the wrecked boat’s hull. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “I’m too wrecked to drive. I’m pulling over.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Two bodies, dead or soon-to-die, being carried from the wreck, or laid neatly by the side of the road. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Of the six deaths that occurred in wrecks the year before in the county, one was attributable to a teen driver. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He had memorized many of the flags from the old wrecks the ship breakers worked, the hulls painted with nation and merchant tags. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Small traces of blood were found in the car and near the scene of the wreck, but there were no other signs of the missing Jacksons. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z So the winds drove this wreck over the deep, East Wind and North Wind, then South Wind and West, coursing each in turn to the brutal harry. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When news spread that Carrie Nation had arrived in a community, saloon owners locked up their establishments until they were certain the one-woman wrecking ball had left town. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “So,” my mom said when I was done with the story, “you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you’re safe.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The symbol matched the swirling tattoos on Nailer’s cheeks, the labor marks that gave him a right to work the wrecks under Bapi’s supervision. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Six years had passed since then: I was a wreck, but nought had changed in those savage and enduring scenes. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z All before the walls on either side of the Gate the ground was choked with wreck and with bodies of the slain; yet still driven as by a madness more and more came up. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I never asked for the wrecks that granted those wishes, though. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z She pulled onto a side road, not far from the wreck site, that led to a gun range. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In fact, I suppose you’d say it was a multi-class neighborhood because both the houses and the kids ranged from wrecks to rich. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z And oh! where meantime was the hapless owner of this wreck? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I twist to look at the sea, the scattering of people struggling out of the water, the wreck of our little dinghy. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Piper had been watching with horrified fascination, the way she might watch a car wreck in progress. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z This thing we were riding wasn’t a monster or a wreck or a whale— “It’s a U-boat!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The sunlight was slanting now into the palms by the wrecked shelter. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z But were he wrecked, the living water would engulf him, helpless; and he would indeed be lost. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He knew as well as anyone that train wrecks in Chicago were nearly a daily occurrence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The Germans quickly found the wreck, questioned survivors, then shot them and dumped them in a ditch. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z What if he messed up and wrecked Bobby’s plane? Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z “They wrecked the greatest country in the world,” he tells Pierson. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Then she moved on to how the Portuguese and Belgians and Americans have wrecked poor Africa top to bottom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, she thought, what the house really needed was the wrecking ball. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Dump wasn’t a wreck like he said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It was nearly wrecked in a hurricane off the African coast. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Over the next few days, the men made several trips back to Dump Camp and the wrecked ship to salvage everything they could, including the third lifeboat. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They came from a different place, lived different lives, wrecked whole clipper ships just so one girl could survive. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Because that's what you do if your family gets in a car wreck, right? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because you look like the kind of girl who’ll wreck something for sure.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mine got wrecked—brake cable got busted and the seat clamp was all screwy. I’m buying another one when I get a job that pays more than eight an hour,” he says. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But they sure had made a wreck of the yard fence. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z When I sing, I'm not a wreck or a widow. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “So you wrecked a whole ship and tried to drown yourself just so they couldn’t catch you?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Considering how many young Spokanes have died in car wrecks, I’m pretty sure it’s my destiny to die in a wreck, too. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Boxes of garbage and piles of junk were heaped around wrecked porches. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know what she meant at first—we were a hundred feet from the end of the wreck—but then I saw what she was running toward. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z My foot crashed through Robert’s screen with the force of a wrecking ball, he claims. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z "You sound like a car wreck," he says. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t think of one thing to say or do to stop this train wreck. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z No day to wreck a life already splintered like a cheap windowpane, but Violet, well you had to know Violet. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Roz was a mangled wreck, and there was nothing they could do to fix her. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t matter that we found him in a wrecked boat in a river. He’s my son, and I would die a thousand more times to protect him.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He was “a nervous wreck,” a fellow passenger observed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It had a good gravel bottom, so I drove through the water till I got around the wreck, then went up the slanted red-clay bank and got back to the road. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Maybe my dogs were lost; the train had a wreck; someone stole my money; or perhaps the mailman lost my order. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It wrecked all the good progress she’d made, making him a villain. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It was like a wreck on the side of the road—it tugged at her eyes like a magnet. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z All kinds of hazardous clutter could be floating in your path—boards, driftwood, coconuts, ropes—and it wouldn’t have taken much to wreck the propeller blades on the old Evinrude. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Shay’s face looked monstrous in the glare, and sparks floated downward to be lost in the depths of the wrecked building. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “It’s pretty wrecked. Now I don’t have a costume for Edna’s party either.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z But the multiple-vehicle wrecks tended to happen during the day, which stood to reason, given that there are more cars on the road at that time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I wanted to turn the computer off, but it was like seeing a car wreck—you keep looking. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Now here he was rummaging through one that he’d helped wreck, looking for secrets. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Killed? Dad’s car wreck wasn’t an accident? And Mom never told me?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Betonie was sitting by the fire, watching the mutton ribs cook over a grill he had salvaged from the front end of a wrecked car in the dump below. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “That boy Russell Quitman had a car wreck in Florida and broke his neck,” she said softly. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z A drunken wreck of a man lurched into Theo, who put a quarter into the filthy outstretched hand, more out of fright than charity. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I examine photographs of what the weather leaves behind: dried-up lakes, wrecked shanty towns, mud-slides, people rowing boats around the roofs of their houses. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no sign of violence, no wrecks, nothing like that. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Had life been wrecked as well as property? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z And then—imagine it—Annabelle’s wrecked self suddenly takes off like a lightning bolt. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z If a supernova explosion happened within five hundred light-years of us, we would be goners, according to Evans–"it would wreck the show," as he cheerfully puts it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This is true, so true, but this is still her last thought of her eighteenth birthday: She has wrecked so much for so many people. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It was as loud as a hundred car wrecks happening all at once, but no one, including me, even bothered to look in its direction. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z His ship came safely through the storm which wrecked or drove to distant countries so many others. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A universal shriek arose as the russet boots waved wildly from the wreck and a golden head emerged, exclaiming, “I told you so! I told you so!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The police asked her to sit down and explained there had been a wreck on Valley View Drive. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “What will become of me? Already my life has been wrecked. What happens to me now? Prowling in garbage cans, following the fleet. My mother was right.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The wrecked jeep remained abandoned for two days. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z I was physically and emotionally wrecked after having just spent an hour scouring the South Col for Andy Harris; the search had left me convinced that he was dead. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z At the spirit rally, I was a nervous wreck, but since I’m a smooth kind of gal, I didn’t let it show. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Downstream was nothing but a wall of fire, and if the wreck brake loose the current would take him right into it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Hideous wrecks were referred to as “spills”; jockeys hurled into the ground were “unseated.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote that he and Danny got into a terrible fight at the wrecking yard. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The island where he and Pima had found Nita’s wrecked ship showed as a point of land, still connected to the mainland. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Zeitoun lay in bed much of the day, wrecked by fatigue. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He could unwittingly charge straight into a wreck. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z ATA wings still tracing a pale outline on the sunken wreck of the breastbone. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z No, Penelope was certain; Lady Constance would rather endure a dozen wild children living in Ashton Place than risk inciting the kind of home wrecking that had transpired. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z They were entering a stretch where the wrecked equipment along the road was more or less continuous. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Louie sat waiting for his race, baking under a scalding sun that, he said, “made a wreck of me.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z It was the kind of smile that could wreck a person. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He arrives in Nuenen, at his parents’ house, again filthy, exhausted, a wreck. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We huddle together in that wrecked house, not knowing what to do with ourselves. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I am still wrecked by it, and I understand why Grandpa said it was his trauma. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I thought it would come pretty close to wrecking me to stand at the front window and watch them—two of them this time—walk out with their things in their arms. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Some were old and broken down but most had been wrecked and they looked it—bent, arched, twisted, the impression they gave was of crumpled paper, not steel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “The wreck of the canoe...left us seriously embarrassed,” said Rondon. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z When I returned his call to arrange a meeting, I could tell Shoto was an emotional wreck. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The real public school system, the one run by the government, had been an underfunded, overcrowded train wreck for decades. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z "Something bad happened...I left it in neutral, and somebody crashed into the back of it while it was parked. Some damage to the rear, and the front is wrecked. They didn't leave a note." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I told you. I left it on Ms. Tannenbaum’s desk this morning and it was fine. Somebody wrecked it.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I already spent a whole childhood thinking I’d wrecked the life of my twin sister, dragged after me into the light. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On May 11, 1906, the wrecking company dynamited the wheel, for scrap. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She was a wreck of tears and gratitude and anticipation. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I haven’t had a real shower since the morning of the wreck. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z He was thinking, if the car had wrecked, it wouldn’t be so bad. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z It had a strangely skeletal look about it, as though it were a resurrected wreck, and the dim, misty lights shimmering at its portholes looked like ghostly eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “When our ship wrecked, two other ships were pursuing us, but they turned back from the storm.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z How can love be such a wrecking ball? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Dimple noticed that, like her, he was having trouble looking away from the unfolding train wreck. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I plunged after her, I dove under the wrecked hull of a yacht, wove through a collection of floating metal balls on chains that I realized afterward were mines. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z We shuffle into vacated seats as the minibus continues over a road pockmarked with bomb craters and littered with wrecked vehicles. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z About two months ago, a car cut me off, causing me to wreck my scooter. Carolyn Hax: This diamond ring doesn’t mean what it did before 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z But Greenhouse also emphasized that this was “no wrecking ball moment,” and that she envisioned the job as “a combination of stewardship and continuity and reinvigorating something.” New York Review Names 2 Top Editors 5 Months After Ian Buruma’s Departure 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Glimmering through the wrecked plans for the “Temple” album’s rollout, this project offered a ray of light. Perspective | The first great Zoom music video has arrived 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z The same men who share this banter also tend to weep quietly about their wrecked lives. Books of The Times: ‘One Last Thing Before I Go’ by Jonathan Tropper 2012-08-15T20:45:56Z And the final scene, more than just shocking, is emotionally wrecking. The 10 best TV episodes of 2018: A highly subjective list 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z At the center of the story was what remains one of the most notorious train wrecks in movie history. A New Podcast Rekindles a Box-Office Bomb 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z She’d save a man from a burning wreck, but somebody else takes care of that. Movie Review: ‘Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas’ Opens 2013-12-13T22:53:21Z And then there is the horrible crumble of it and living in the wreck of life. "Lorelei" star Jena Malone: Lower-income stereotypes have always been "stigmatized but romanticized" 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z The result, wrote The Guardian's critic, is "truly cathartic" but could leave the listener "a quivering wreck". Mercury Prize 2014: The nominees 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z And the scenes in which the children transform themselves into hormonal train wrecks of teenagers are delightful. Review: Children Growing Very Old in ‘Before Your Very Eyes’ 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z When an archivist brought him a plank from a wrecked Lusitania lifeboat, he took it as encouragement to keep digging. Erik Larson, Author of ‘Dead Wake,’ Seizes Historical Mysteries 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z “I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way of transferring my own private horrors to everyone else’s lives,” he told an interviewer for Rolling Stone magazine in 2007. Holiday Movies: The Season of Spielberg 2011-10-28T16:42:47Z The letter told of horses and teenage car wrecks and his pride in what Sarah and Mallory Ward had accomplished. Bling Bling Had the Rings, the Pilot Her Heart 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z He was a wreck, and his remarriage was a disaster. Ask Amy: Woman worries as nephew becomes niece As the wrecking party turns violent, thanks to miners from neighboring towns, Ross ends up sheltering the ship’s crew. 'Poldark' Season 1 Finale Recap: Faith vs. Perfidy 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z He combines a great cast, a gripping idea and a gorgeously grimy retro aesthetic to keep this eerie examination of the train wreck of humanity racing along. Hurtling along in Bong Joon-ho's train movie 'Snowpiercer' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z But her real partner ends up being Paul, a renowned cop who retired after the death of his wife and a debilitating car wreck. Review: ‘Witnesses,’ Now Streaming, Unpeels an Eerie Mystery 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The experience left Buck physically drained and an emotional wreck. Perspective | A gardener went to Japan to polish her pruning skills. She found tough love. 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Throughout, the lyrics stick to the trad and tested: 14 Days goes, "I'm a wreck and you're a mess." New band of the day ? No 1,061: Howler 2011-07-13T16:14:36Z So in the seconds before the first public showing of “Cake” at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, Jennifer Aniston was a wreck inside. Jennifer Aniston Has Something to Prove With ‘Cake’ 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z And everyone, including the people who wrecked into our car, are safe and will make it home safely. With monkeypox and polio to worry about now, who can stress about small stuff? 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z I was a wreck, first tears having come about 10 minutes in to this tale of elderly bereavement, my face a raw red mess after the hypnotic, raking hour was over. Edinburgh fringe theatre roundup 2011-08-06T23:06:34Z Think about the broader applications of Urban Bush Women’s sheer physical energy: There would be no need for bulldozers, wrecking balls, Toastmasters. Urban Bush Women, with energy to burn 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z Like Tart’s characters, I had wanted so much, had felt so deeply and then had been wrecked and humbled so profoundly by the life that my searching brought me. Our school shooting 2012-08-20T01:00:00Z |
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