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Sentence Examples Shots of the actual wreck of the ship, early on in the movie, set the atmosphere. A diving expedition has surveyed the wreck of the cruiser, now a war grave lying at 250 ft. Niall was clearing the remaining jagged edges of glass from the windows and banging on the side of the wreck in the hope of some response. I turned into a total wreck and it got so bad that my nerves began jangling on a Wednesday, three days before a game. The Royal Australian Navy has confirmed that a wreck located 10 nautical miles east of Cape Moreton is not the Centaur. The wreck lay intact on its port side, its masts and crane jibs spreading themselves across the sand and gravel seabed. Stories of other children succumbing would turn me into a jittery nervous wreck. He invited himself and the rest of the staff crew to come and wreck my life in a weekend of jolly good fun. It was the last big wreck of the steam era on the C.P.R., occurring shortly before I began railroading. The harbourmaster assessed the wreck, which was extensively holed, as unsalvageable. The stern is beginning to split from the aft part of the wreck and is falling to starboard. This wreck was the best bad thing that ever happened to me, because it was a reality check. The anchor winch has a large drum on the back, with its axis along the wreck. If the bearing is correct, the wreck of the windjammer should be exactly below us. We find much of the wreck intact, including windlass, railings and the entrances to the cargo holds. A row of emergency vehicles lined up behind the wreck, and a fire truck sprayed the flames with water. Whisky Galore, a fictional account of an actual wreck of a ship loaded with whisky on Eriskay, was made into a highly successful film. Te Namu Bay was the scene of the 1862 wreck of the ship the Lord Worsley, and was one of the most beautiful spots in the district. Geranium, a French warship sent from Cherbourg, was alerting other ships to the wreck while a single buoy marked the spot. When she first set foot in it, it was more of a wreck, but a listed building nonetheless. Show More Sentences Everyone hopes to find the treasure hidden in the wreck, even though many doubt that it's there at all. The Navy has placed warning signs around the area to warn fisherman and commercial ships of the wreck as to avoid any accidents. All that was left of the aircraft was a burned-out wreck, with blackened pieces scattered across the sands. The car was reduced to a mangled wreck, and debris and broken glass were scattered across the road. Gordon led laps for the first time since Daytona and was a threat to win until his car was damaged in a wreck. The station was a wreck when it was bought 18 years ago and the garden non-existent. Since its closure in October, the club building became a burnt-out wreck after being targeted by vandals and being gutted by two separate fires. Flames visible for miles tore through the roof of a disused school in Windhill, Shipley, last night, leaving the building a wreck. Rigby visited the wreck of the Titanic last year on a Russian submarine and will lecture about his trip at the Dundee exhibition. The wreck of a 100-year-old fishing boat has been discovered in the depths of Loch Ness. The song was available on phonograph records within less than a year of the wreck and remains one of the better of the railroad disaster genre. There was an awkward semicircle of wheeled vehicles arranged around the wreck, all black and white with lights on. He swerved to the left of the vehicle barely avoiding a wreck. We slow down when we pass a car wreck to survey the damage, and maybe even the body count. The driver overshot the last station before the wreck, and a crew member and several passengers speculated the train was speeding to make up time. That same night an entire catch crew was wiped out by a truck wreck. The area is home to Kowloon Bridge, the world's largest diveable wreck. And only a couple of weeks ago, divers also thought they had come across the wreck of the Darwin Princess, a 23 metre ferry last seen in Frances Bay. Snorkelers can have a grand time floating just 30 feet above the stern, watching the divers below and the thousands of fish that live in the wreck. If the engine of a train suddenly goes off the rails, a wreck ensues. Show More Sentences The driver of the pickup, who walked away from the wreck of his vehicle, was also taken to hospital, where he received 12 stitches to his forehead. One theory, for example, was that it was caused by a train wreck in 1970 that spilled a load of cyanide. There's a great difference between an airborne aircraft and a wreck. The nearest one to the road is a memorial to the Walmsley family, who drowned in August 1831, in the wreck of the Rothsay Castle, which took the lives of 100 passengers. None of this is to say that the wreck and salvage of the costa Concordia should have received less attention. The entire stern section of the wreck is tilted aft and to starboard. Christa and John Hale visibly fill with pride as they describe how they have transformed their beloved Highland home from a dilapidated wreck into a rural idyll. They made their unusual find after echo-sounding equipment on board their ship detected the wreck, and they then explored its hold on a further dive. The death of William, his only legitimate son, in 1120 in the wreck of the White Ship brought Henry's whole carefully contrived edifice tumbling down. Navigation can be particularly difficult on the aft part of the wreck. Given that I was very unfamiliar with the layout and condition of the wreck I decided to spend this first dive exploring the bridge and surrounding area to get my bearings. Somers, along with Sir Thomas Gates, had led the survivors of the 1609 wreck. He prised a skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons. There is a feeling in Washington that we are gathering at the side of the track to watch a gigantic economic train wreck one of these days. That made me happy, and I didn't want Stalin' s A-bombs to wreck our time together. And snatched her breathless from beneath this wilderment of wreck and death. It doesn't mean you're a worrywart, a nervous wreck or in need of heavy medication. Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life. The wreck grab is brought to surface where recovered wreckage is lowered onto a barge. A feature of the vessel is the 100-ton wreck grab which has a capacity of 98 cu. yds. Show More Sentences The captain stayed on the wheel, controlling the drift of his beamy boat so that we approached the wreck stern-to. Eleven bottles of champagne, which were found in the wreck off Finland's Aaland Islands in 2010, will go up for auction on Friday. Pablo had one other spot he wanted to check, a houseboat wreck positioned in what locals call a white hole. In 1889 a severe passenger train wreck occurred near Dijon, when a 2-4-2 engine derailed while going full speed downhill. Quick climb onto my back and cry wreck it wreck it like a frog in the grip of ecstatic amplexus. World War II veteran Ray Woolley marked his special day exploring the wreck of the Zenobia at the bottom of Larnaca Bay. Two of its massive Pegasus radial engines and propellers have been raised from the wreck and are now being conserved and displayed in our museum. The containers found in the wreck are known as amphora, and are unique shapes, that often contained handles. What a brittle personality! A little misunderstanding and he's an emotional wreck. For me, each performance was a car wreck. At the end of each one I had no clear memory of what had happened. The chickenry next door, which looked suspiciously small to house a thousand birds, was also a complete wreck. We watched the derailment and ensuing train wreck with a mixture of fascination and horror. There are also many shipwrecks along the coast of Ireland, with some of the best wreck dives being in Malin Head and off the County Cork coast. Another Marine, who gets the Dear John letter, is being lush-rolled in a dive when the Marines come to the rescue and wreck the joint. The wreck is still visible underwater in Bounty Bay, discovered in 1957 by National Geographic explorer Luis Marden. The tanks were also used to raise sunken wrecks by placing them under the wreck and creating buoyancy by pumping them full of air. Production began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the actual Titanic wreck. Working around the wreck for so much time, you get such a strong sense of the profound sadness and injustice of it, and the message of it. After submerging the dining saloon, three days were spent shooting Lovett's ROV traversing the wreck in the present. Although the harbour appeared to be a natural one it later proved to have tides that could easily wreck a vessel trying to leave. Show More Sentences Divers are permitted to enter the wrecks, but not to retrieve artefacts located within 100 metres of any wreck. The legend of the accordion's arrival in Colombia comes from a story of a ship wreck that was coming from Germany to Argentina. The wreck was extensively salvaged by Victorians shortly after the disaster. Army Air Forces plane, known as the Maid of Harlech, but hope eventually to salvage the wreck. A naval footnote in the history of Lundy was the wreck of the Royal Navy battleship HMS Montagu. The Farne Islands are associated with the story of Grace Darling and the wreck of the Forfarshire. Hundreds of ships have been wrecked on the Farnes over the years, providing plenty for wreck divers to look at. The wreck of the Queen Mary revealed cordite containers stacked in the working chamber of the X turret instead of the magazine. In December 2002 French authorities ordered the wreck to be removed, as it was perceived to represent a danger to shipping and the environment. The harbour is a popular location for wind surfing, wreck diving and sailing. The drifting wreck, carrying brown rats, drifted northwards until it reached the village of Hvalba. Few ships wreck today, but storms still uncover the ruins of the old wrecks that lie along the beaches of the Outer Banks. The wreck was used as a target for cannon fire to impress the native peoples. His plan was to break up the wreck of Royal George with gunpowder charges and then salvage as much as possible using divers. In many cases, hazardous materials must be removed prior to disposing of the wreck. When certain vessels are lost in an unknown area, a potential salvor might discover and plunder the wreck without knowledge of the wreck's owner. Ligan or lagan are goods left in the sea on the wreck or tied to a buoy so that they can be recovered later by the owners. At least two other salvage teams in 1547 and 1549 received payment for raising more guns from the wreck. After the sinking, the partially buried wreck created a barrier at a right angle against the currents of the Solent. Two scour pits, large underwater ditches, formed on either side of the wreck while silt and seaweed was deposited inside the ship. Show More Sentences Using a recently invented rubber suit and metal diving helmet, Deane and Edwards began to examine the wreck and salvage items from it. John Deane ceased working on the wreck in 1836, but returned in 1840 with new, more destructive methods. With the help of condemned bomb shells filled with gunpowder acquired from the Ordnance Board he blasted his way into parts of the wreck. Initially the two teams had differing views on where to find the wreck, but eventually joined forces. A major problem for the team from the start was that wreck sites in the UK lacked any legal protection from plunderers and treasure hunters. In combination with secrecy as to the exact location of the wreck, it saved the project from interference. Following the discovery of the wreck in 1971, the project became known to the general public and received increasing media attention. If the wreck stayed uncovered any longer it risked irreversible damage from biological decay and tidal scouring. After the frame was properly attached to the hull it was slowly jacked up on four legs straddling the wreck site to pull the ship off the seabed. As a miniature society at sea, the wreck of the Mary Rose held personal objects belonging to individual crew members. For instance, the Antikythera wreck contained a staggering collection of marble and bronze statues including the Antikythera Youth. The sponge divers also recovered from the wreck the famous Antikythera mechanism, believed to be an astronomical calculator. In October 2011, a wreck, possibly one of Kublai's invasion craft, was found off the coast of Nagasaki. In the following October, UNESCO's expert team published their final report, concluding that the wreck could not be Columbus's vessel. Cabral authorizes the king of Malindi to recover the cannons from the El Rei wreck and keep them for himself. The men came across the wreck of a ship made of wood that appeared to be mahogany. Whatever it was, the wreck has not been seen since 1880 despite extensive searches in recent times. Another wreck off Espiritu Santo, the SS President Coolidge, is also a popular diving spot. Just outside Piraeus we circled low over a capsized fishing-boat, a grisly wreck in the crystal blue water, and wirelessed a description of it to the mainland. Because the wreck can usually be dated with some degree of certainty, its contents provides a clear snapshot of production at the moment the vessel went down. Show More Sentences A further significant attraction to scuba divers is the wreck of the US ocean liner and converted troop carrier SS President Coolidge on Espiritu Santo island. Animal remains have been found in the wreck of the Mary Rose. The excavation of the Mary Rose wreck site proved that it was possible to achieve a level of exactness in underwater excavations comparable to those on dry land. When the high tide came in, the hulks rose and with them the wreck. The most common techniques used in wreck removal are cutting the hull into easily handled sections or refloating the vessel and scuttling it in deeper waters. She looked like the wreck of the Hesperus when she got caught in the rain. This derives from the Cornish name for the Seven Stones reef, on the reputed site of the lost land's capital and the site of the notorious wreck of the Torrey Canyon. In a shipwreck found off of the coast of Turkey, the Ulu Bulurun wreck, Canaanite storage pottery along with pottery from Cyprus and Greece was found. It has been proposed that the origin of these jars is a Roman wreck, although it has been suggested that they could be 15th or 16th century Spanish olive oil jars. Although the wreck resides within French territorial waters, the United States government, as the successor to the former Confederate States of America, is the owner. Captain Max Guerout later confirmed the wreck to be of the CSS Alabama. There is no data between soundings or between sounding lines to guarantee that there is not a hazard such as a wreck or a coral head waiting there to ruin a sailor's day. The nugget was about 40 metres from the site of Royal Charter's wreck, so Thurkettle had to notify the Receiver of Wreck, who took possession of it on behalf of the Crown. The wreck happened over the Magdalena river in the Atlantic coast. The modern scenes on the research vessel were shot on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron had used as a base when filming the wreck. In 1810 a wreck near Margate was raised in this way but there was a dispute over payment and Trevithick was driven to cut the lashings loose and let it sink again. The supplies of the 275 settlers were overwhelmed by 250 survivors of the wreck of the British East Indian Ship Atlas in May, and the colony failed in October. After William drowned in the wreck of the White Ship Fulk married another of his daughters, Sibylla, to William Clito, son of Henry I's older brother, Robert Curthose. I'm as willing to save life as the next man, but I'm not going to wreck my ship fooling round a reef in the night-time. How'll you get a boat over, anyhow? Government refuses to disclose the exact coordinates of the wreck sites. Show More Sentences In looking at this wreck of Governments in all European countries, there is one consideration that suggests itself, sadly elucidative of our modern epoch. Her life was a total car wreck with no one there to help her fix it. Examples from Classical Literature These fools might wreck themselves at Ahwaz and lose everything in the river. When I was on board of the wreck of the avenger, I found this book floating in the cabin. The fame of his success in raising the wreck off the Bahamas had already preceded him. Once or twice we passed the red wreck of a batteau which had been stove some spring. Aber idt is bedder to die on a goodt ship dan in der wreck of a lighdthouse. Then the breeches buoy was rigged, and in a little while a woman was hauled in from the wreck. Standing in the bow with a boat hook, the captain warded off pieces of wreck and gradually made his way to the strange boat. My aunt rushed to the bureau, and there she saw the patched and botched wreck. Out to the wreck, the breeches buoy traveled, and then returned with its freight of a second man. His first step was to restore discipline in the chapter, which had all gone to wreck. The story of the wreck and the sinking of the coaler had by this time been spread all over the country. When the coastguardsman is going out to the wreck, it isn't necessary to wave your arms about like a windmill. But Lucy, being a man of energy, soon rigged a jury-mast out of its wreck, and set to work to cut-in his whales. It was part of the wreck of a dhow or of some other vessel against which our ship had struck. The man turned around, a wreck of shabby old clothes, sodden with rain and all a-drip, and showed a black face under an old slouch hat. Still no human being came into sight on that creepily weird wreck. The wreck of the blue box was left behind, for it was rusty and worthless. Indeed, it was the wreck of all cosmical beauty there within. Drowned in wreck of the Speedy, while on his way to hold court. The place did not even justify its name, for it was a cinereous wreck. Show More Sentences Her business was going to wreck, and bankruptcy seemed impending. Then Jefferson got a small legacy and bought the wreck of the Cumbria. They could see that the wreck was a small vessel on her beam-ends. The cutter imitated this manoeuvre, and the boat of the wreck went last. But in the morning he had his first convulsion, and it left him a wreck. So the little house was not bare, but made pleasant to their eyes by these waifs from the wreck, brought them by the tide of sympathy and good-will which soon set in. As it was, there was little amiss beyond the wreck of the main-sail. A kettle steamed upon the hob, and in the midst of the wreck of papers a table shone, with plenty of wine upon it, and brandy, and rum, and sugar, and lemons. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of wreck? Words that rhyme with wreck What is the past tense of wreck? What is the plural of wreck? What is the adjective for wreck? What is the noun for wreck? Translations for wreck Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words wreaths wreathing wreathed wreathe wreath wreaks wreckage wreckages wrecked wrecker wreckers wreckfish 5-letter Words Starting With w wr wre wrec