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n. (plural of wrecking ball English)
Usage examples of "wrecking balls".
The lawyer they had hired, Warley or Warmly or whatever, kept talking about something he called the domino theory, and about the need to get out of 'the condemned building before the whole thing falls down on your' head, boy - there are two states and three Federal agencies bringing up the wrecking balls.
No mess, no amazons waving riot sticks, no wrecking balls trying to get past the grilles on the windows.
Its long arms ended in fists as big as wrecking balls, and it struck out casually at every building it passed, smashing through stone and brick with equal ease.
These were times still hammered by the Utopian schemes that had nearly destroyed civilization in the previous century, ideological wrecking balls that swung through the early years of this new millennium with diminishing force but with sufficient residual power to demolish the hopes of multitudes if sane men and women weren't vigilant.
It seems they should not burn at all, that nothing short of jackhammers and wrecking balls should be able to bring them down.
CAFFEINE AND SUGAR, in quantity and in tandem, were supposed to be twin wrecking balls of human health in general and destructive to sleep in particular, but Coke and cookies marginally improved Micky's low spirits and didn't prevent her eyes from growing heavy.
However, most of the soul people stood about apathetically, watching the wrecking balls swing against the old crumbling walls.
The word is, this whole building is condemned and the bulldozers and wrecking balls will clean up our mess in another week.
The ancient school itself, boarded up and awaiting demolition, but burning mysteriously at the end of that summer before the wrecking balls could bring it down.
Perhaps Victor Nazarian had bought the property of his neighbors after their houses had been torn downor perhaps he had bought the houses themselves and watched, cackling with delight, as the wrecking balls swung and shattered the walls.
The crews with the wrecking balls on the other side were very efficient, reaching into the here and now to snatch up anyone whose number was up.