wreaking
- present participle of wreak.
Example Sentences
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Wreaking havoc in the city of nearly 900,000, Otis, a Category 5 hurricane, killed dozens of people and left thousands more without roofs over their heads.
From Reuters • Nov. 8, 2023
Wreaking havoc on nearly every aspect of the industry, the pandemic accelerated seismic shifts in the way movies are made and consumed.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2021
Wreaking havoc on business as usual in Hollywood, the pandemic forced the industry to make many sudden moves, shifting release dates and upending modes of distribution that had stretched back decades.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2021
Built near a seaside town during "a golden age of asylum architecture", Wreaking could house 3,000 patients.
From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2013
He spake moreover of assailing fiends Empowered to quit on me my father's blood, Wreaking their wrath on me, what time in night Beneath shut lids the spirit's eye sees clear.
From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
