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Usage examples of wrecked.

It had probably been high tide when she was wrecked, as the water had completely left her.

The doctor had written a note, which he left in the hut, stating the name of the vessel wrecked on the island, and the circumstances under which he and the only survivor of the crew, with a party of English officers and men, had quitted it.

That very night we lost a man overboard, but it was not until some weeks later, after we had been becalmed for ten days or more, that we fell in with the gale which reduced us to the wrecked state in which you found us.

The more valuable stores were carried off, though provisions and other articles were left which might afford assistance to the sufferers of any ship which might be wrecked on the island.

He was bringing gold-- big bars of gold-- back in his ship--and it got wrecked off Kirrin Island.

I have always thought that the gold was safely delivered somewhere-- and that the ship, empty of its valuable cargo, got wrecked as it left the bay!

When you wrecked your own boat against the invisible towers of my home, I took pity upon you, for I saw that I had unintentionally harmed you, and so I gave you a new boat, just like the one that was wrecked.

There was a freighter wrecked by a missile strike, its frame peeled back and half-melted, like a Daliesque flower.

Quiet War had wrecked the economy of the Outer System colonies, and seventy percent of the population depended upon the charity of the victorious Three Powers Alliance.

He had spent more than a hundred days in a forced labor camp, helping to rebuild wrecked agricultural domes.

Saturn, its exhaust a steady, brilliant star beyond the ragged sphere of wrecked ships.

May, when she brought the Churro sheep back to Joe-Johns Mountain, the pieces of the wrecked wing had already eroded, were small and smooth-edged like the bits of sea glass you find on a beach, and she figured that this must be what it was meant to do: to break apart into pieces too small for anybody to notice, and then to quickly wear away.

Dora with her wrecked fucking face who comes in every night and drinks till they chuck her out.

Lanark was pretty sober yet and making eyes at me from his table, and I smiled back at him because he did still use to be handsome then, in a wrecked kind of way.

The ship was wrecked on the Island of Alderney, and all the crew arrested.