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How to use the word wrecking in a Sentence?

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This kind of behavior is wrecking the status quo, and it's wrecking peace and stability in this region and it should not be accepted.

Joseph Wu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This guy, when he’s on he’s like a one-man wrecking crew, we did pitch him tough and I’m sure that he’s going to make the adjustment when we go out there very soon.

Dusty Baker

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The vehicle was fully involved with fire on arrival, and took a significant amount of time, water, and thinking outside the box to extinguish, crews knocked the fire down, but the car kept re-igniting and off-gassing in the battery compartment. Working with the on-site wrecking yard personnel, the Tesla was moved on its side to gain access to the battery compartment underneath.

Sacramento Metropolitan Fire Department

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think it's going to be close. I don't know if they have enough magic left. I mean, what they've done to get here, it's been a shock. There's so much talent on that LA Rams team. There is so much depth. There’s so much star power. There’s game-changers, jalen Ramsey can change the game in one interception for a touchdown. Aaron Donald can change the game in one sack. Von Miller has taken over a Super Bowl (in the past). They have so many game-changing, game-wrecking players everywhere. There’s so many players in that defense, and it’s tough to overcome.

Jamie Squire/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It sounds like you’re trying to put an asterisk on the 2020 election which only feeds this conspiracy nonsense that is wrecking this country, why did we have what we had here a year ago was this conspiratorial nonsense that leads people to the idea that there was something to this. There was nothing to this.

Chuck Todd

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I hold the mayor completely responsible for this because he’s taken a wrecking ball to our police department.

Curtis Sliwa

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The relationship between plants and insects and other organisms have developed over many years -- thousands to millions of years, but in the recent century, climate change is really wrecking everything and perturbing all of these relationships.

Amos Tai

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It looks like somebody is trying to figure out how to change the angle of Lady Libertys arm without wrecking the support.

Edward Berenson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We don't want job-destroying, economy-destroying, economy-wrecking targets and goals, which won't change the fact that there have been bushfires or anything like that in Australia.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The pivot from demanding changes to the( Irish) backstop to demanding its total removal is a pivot from a tough negotiating stance to a wrecking one, the unelected people who pull the strings of this government know that this is a demand the EU can not, and will not, accede to.

Philip Hammond

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It would kind of be like wrecking the American family.

Susan Olsen

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

These claims are absurd, particularly from an administration that has taken a wrecking ball to America's global leadership on promoting fundamental rights across the world.

Bob Menendez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I dont even know what to say about Draymond, he was a wrecking ball, destroying everything in his path.

Steve Kerr

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I reject the idea that America will be a better place if marijuana is sold in every corner store. And I am astonished to hear people suggest that we can solve our heroin crisis by legalizing marijuana – so people can trade one life-wrecking dependency for another that’s only slightly less awful, our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

Jeff Sessions

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I reject the idea that America will be a better place if marijuana is sold in every corner store. And I am astonished to hear people suggest that we can solve our heroin crisis by legalizing marijuana – so people can trade one life-wrecking dependency for another that’s only slightly less awful.

Jeff Sessions

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There is no way to sugarcoat this, President Trump has taken a wrecking ball to environmental protection in the US, frankly I didn't think this would happen with the severity with this is happening. We have had changes in powers before. Different presidents strike a different balance. But this is a severe attack that we didn't expect.

Ken Kimmell

Found on CNN
6 years ago

He was like a golden wrecking ball, he wrecked what needed to be wrecked … in order to allow us to rebuild.

Sarah Palin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The wrecking ball it created now has banged into our British allies and our German allies, it's continuing to grow in terms of damage, and he needs to put an end to this, now maybe this is the way he conducted his real estate business, with half-truths and sometimes no-truths and a lot of bluster. That, in my opinion, is no way to run a business. But it's an even worse way to run a country.

Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
7 years ago

By the way, to perform in front of Don Rickles, it’s not nerve-wrecking. It’s enjoyable, i am enjoying Jeff Garlin. I hope I perform in front of Don Rickles every night of my life !

Jeff Garlin

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I had the option. I could have done something, but if I did that, I took a risk of wrecking the entire field to win the race, i chose to not wreck everybody, and I don't remember where we ended up, but we were leading until we got to the middle of the backstretch on the last lap.

Tony Stewart

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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