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Example sentences for "wracked"

Lexicographically close words:
wows; woxe; woxen; wrack; wracke; wracking; wracks; wrait; wraith; wraiths
  1. He had wracked the engine enough already.

  2. The next instant he had leaped to the cockpit, carrying the wrenched, wracked piece of machinery with him.

  3. Their spouses Some clasp to their sorrow-wracked bosoms!

  4. Tears of vexation dropped upon my breast and the groan I smothered in a sigh nearly wracked my soul.

  5. A choking sob wracked the girl's frame--"And just when I was learning to trust you so!

  6. For three days the Halfmoon plunged helplessly upon the storm-wracked surface of the mad sea.

  7. Did you give up three years of your life To wipe out the sentence that burned the wracked body of Calas?

  8. In this storm-wracked world Jacques-Forget-Not is now a great judge and a most fanatical patriot.

  9. Presently de Vaudrey, in his new character of the carter's assistant, was on the first stage of the long journey to the storm-wracked metropolis.

  10. Wracked with agony, she gazes about at the sea of hostile faces--not one stray iota of sympathy in that Dark Hour.

  11. He considered turning it off, but conceded it was better to struggle around in an apparently listing ship than to be wracked by the nausea of weightlessness.

  12. He pressed the normal drive jet lever and it spluttered weakly, creating not even enough discordant sounds in the wracked ship to drown out the boom, throom, clank-sss symphony.

  13. And indeed it is much better patiently to be such a hen-pecked frigot, than always to be wracked and tortured with the grating surmises of suspicion and jealousy.

  14. Except for the crackle of the fire and the beat of the rain, there was no sound in the cave but this,--those anguished sobs from her wracked lungs.

  15. But there was no answer, in the swirling depths, to the question that wracked his heart: whether or not in these spruce-clad hills his daughter still lived.

  16. And he would die, alone, wracked by the ailment he had introduced into the human line.

  17. The rest of his life could be measured in pain-wracked months, possibly only in weeks.

  18. He was pain-wracked and very much weakened by his disease now.

  19. Something wracked him in his neck when he tried to move.

  20. He had succeeded in getting down from the couch, though wracked by agony, but had been unable to lift himself up in reach of the gun.

  21. Pain wracked him, and smoke half-blinded him.

  22. There bain't no luck in wracked gold, nor wracked diamonds--nor wracked women!

  23. Worse nor wracked diamonds, worse nor wracked gold they be--these humans wid fairy blood in 'em!

  24. How would they know she was wracked on this coast?

  25. I bleated and hacked loudly, uncontrollably, wracked by the seething nausea of my body's turbid rebellion.

  26. I also hate to see Mom and Dad so terribly wracked with pain.

  27. He tried to open his smarting eyes, but the lids were wracked with pain and would not at once respond.

  28. He wracked his brain trying to bring back to memory all that he had read on that problem.

  29. Fall Without End For a moment Robin felt dizzy again, and the falling sensation wracked him.

  30. Mary Louise, seeking to fix the responsibility, had failed in doing so and was wracked at the prospect of frequently recurring waste.

  31. The feeling of unfulfillment that had wracked him constantly was giving way.

  32. The crew of the lifeboat here are not allowed to touch a pound of freight or baggage on a wracked ship.

  33. However, I don't mean to say that all of them vessels were wracked fair and square.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wracked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affected; agonized; imbued; impressed; moved; obsessed; racked; stricken; torn; tortured; touched