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

Rivelino Verá Gabriel said soy farming was wrecking the lifestyle of the South American nation's Mbya Guarani people.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2021

Watt was wrecking the Las Vegas Raiders’ game plan.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2021

By 1999, she was listed as the fifth-richest woman in the British Isles, but fame was wrecking her nervous system.

From The Guardian • Sep. 13, 2018

Sunk in his easy chair, he now ruminated upon that unyielding order which was wrecking his plans, breaking the strings of his present life and overturning his future plans.

From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)