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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The team is amassing walks and opposite-field hits in front of homers to create a wrecking ball offense.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Shopping trends and consumer preferences have caused malls around the country to face the wrecking ball.
    Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 13 June 2024

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