How to Use wrecking ball in a Sentence

wrecking ball

noun

• This was the night the Yankees awoke what the wrecking ball had stilled.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• In this case, that's Carter, a wrecking ball against both the pass and run.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
• Phoenix building to meet the wrecking ball in the last decade.
  — AZCentral.com, 4 June 2021
• Phoenix building to meet the wrecking ball in the past decade.
  — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2021
• The Wild was a wrecking ball throughout the game, hounding pucks and the Canucks.
  — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
• If there was a bridge to mend, Roth’s rant was a wrecking ball.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2024
• It was destined for a date with the wrecking ball in the early ‘90s.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2020
• Many resorts have risen over the decades, many have seen the wrecking ball.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2021
• They have already been saved from the wrecking ball twice.
  — The Enquirer, 25 Apr. 2024
• Here’s 12 studs and duds: Stud: Jadeveon Clowney Clowney was a one-man wrecking ball against the 49ers.
  — oregonlive, 12 Nov. 2019
• The biggest emotional wrecking ball of the episode comes at the very end.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021
• Season 12 of The Masked Singer is coming in like a wrecking ball.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2024
• The Raiders are scary and could be a wrecking ball for their opponents.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• In the '60s and '70s, many of the restaurants, clubs and stores along Indiana Avenue fell to the wrecking ball.
  — Christine Fernando, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2020
• When Axel hits town like a wrecking ball, he’s forced to deal with a new breed of cop, Det.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2024
• Matthew Judon has been a wrecking ball since the Patriots signed him in 2021.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• Then Trout, Walsh and Ohtani broke out the wrecking ball, and the Angels were off to another win.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022
• That end of Taylor Street had escaped the wrecking ball.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• But when the wrecking ball came for the Great Northern Depot in 1978, no one stepped forward to save it.
  — Eric Roper, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
• Perrion Winfrey came in like a wrecking ball and is ready to spring himself on the NFL.
  — cleveland, 22 July 2022
• San Diego can wallow in the bliss of swinging a wrecking ball through the Dodgers, but not the team that represents it.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2022
• Swanson, who has committed to the Texas Longhorns, has been a wrecking ball moving around the line.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2021
• Only the legendary Gladys Knight could come in [like a wrecking ball] and make an already great song greater.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• In a city where the past is often rewritten by wrecking balls, the Marmont has remained a unique portal to the past.
  — Lynell George, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2019
• Tatum Ahlemeyer is a wrecking ball for the Spain Park girls soccer team.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 14 May 2022
• For countless people who passed through Dinkytown over the decades, that's reason enough to feel a twinge when the wrecking ball swings.
  — Star Tribune, 17 Dec. 2020
• As a result, Trump seems intent on taking a wrecking ball to the old order.
  — Steven Radelet, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018
• The Orlando City attack crashed into the first half like a wrecking ball.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Nov. 2020
• And then there have been the actual upsets, wrecking balls that have been leaving gaping holes in the draw.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• The camera glides over bricks, twisted metal, and a wrecking ball before alighting on a kid, who pops up out of the ground like a mole.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024