How to Use wrack in a Sentence

wrack

verb

• These are things that like really wrack the minds of a lot of creatives.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• The nations of a region wracked with conflict and the long shadow of the communist ...
  — Scott Howard, National Review, 11 June 2023
• That you must be wracked with sobbing grief is from the Everyone Lives the Same Life playbook.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
• In fact, 60 years ago, the industry was wracked by a similar double strike.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2023
• And so began what turned into four nerve-wracking weeks in the hospital fighting to get Kennedy back to health.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2023
• Her mother, wracked with grief, still wanted to speak to us about her innocent little girl.
  — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
• Almost 80 years of storms have now rusted and wracked it into jagged spires and open holes, so that portions look like a witch’s fingers or like Swiss cheese.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Peru, wracked by its own outbreak, has declared an emergency in much of the country.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
• The scene can be especially nerve-wracking for teams that lack experience on the big stage.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Haiti has been wracked by violence and unrest, and the capital city has been overtaken by gangs.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2024
• See more Videos of the decoration have wracked up millions of views on the platform, including one video that has been viewed more than 8.1 million times.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• The starting point guard job has become a revolving door for the Chicago Bulls as injuries continue to wrack the roster.
  — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• The two initiatives come as the city has been wracked by homelessness and drug use, and Breed faces a cranky electorate in her own reelection in November.
  — Nicholas Riccardi, The Denver Post, 29 Feb. 2024
• The ordeal has wracked the Williams family with anxiety and fear at what should have been a celebratory time.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• But this rotation would wrack the megastructure with yet more destructive stress.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
• The shaking toppled thousands of buildings and heaped more misery on a region wracked by Syria’s 12-year civil war and refugee crisis.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2023
• Hungary has been wracked by energy inflation since the EU tore up its contracts with Russia.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Jan. 2024
• More than five months later, Israelis describe a shattered sense of security, and are still wracked with anxiety about the more than 100 hostages held in Gaza.
  — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
• Players whose parents have been killed or have died young from diseases that wrack the community, such as diabetes.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2020
• Reading a verse or passage that speaks to your feelings can be a way to find solace, peace, and relaxation during this exciting but nerve wracking time.
  — Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 9 Mar. 2023
• The findings are alarming for this part of Yemen, already wracked by war, widespread poverty and suffocating summers.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• Rather than wracking up your gas bill by turning up the central heating system in your entire home, a space heater warms only a specific area instead.
  — Wendy Vazquez, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Dec. 2023
• But as much wealth as the swamp generates for some of its local inhabitants, many still live in neighborhoods wracked by violence.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2023
• That’s what happened to Carol Rosen, a 70-year-old retired schoolteacher whose final weeks were wracked with excruciating pain.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
• On Friday, Selena Gomez started wracking up the likes on Instagram with a couple of sultry selfies taken in what looks like her boudoir.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 July 2023
• Markets recently have been wracked by worries about banks and fears the industry may be cracking under the pressure of much higher interest rates.
  — Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 30 Mar. 2023
• And the prominent rapper was one of the only children in the neighborhood with both parents at home during a time when Los Angeles and places like Compton were wracked with sky-high murder rates wrought by gang wars.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• Another image shows a woman slumped over a wooden fence, wracked with grief at being separated from her mother.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
• The property owners have had to grapple with higher costs on their end as inflation wracks the economy, making their profit margins from renting not as favorable.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2023
• Many came from Venezuela, a country wracked by political and economic turmoil, and all had endured dangerous journeys north through Mexico.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024