wreck
noun
any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
was wrecking
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past progressiveof wreck.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In doing so, these parents removed the flashing connectivity that was wrecking sleep schedules, domestic harmony and peace of mind everywhere else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
“I was wrecking or winning this thing, There was no other option.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
Rivelino Verá Gabriel said soy farming was wrecking the lifestyle of the South American nation's Mbya Guarani people.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2021
Even as Covid was wrecking her body, one doctor in the hospital commented that she looked so much younger than 80.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2021
In 655 Psamtik I reunited and resurrected her while his overlord Assurbanipal was wrecking his—Assurbanipal's—empire elsewhere; thirteen decades afterwards, in 525, she fell before Cambyses.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
