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"Wreak" in a Sentence (23 examples)
A hurricane can wreak destruction everywhere it goes.
Some non-native species are harmless, but others wreak havoc on other species, human health and the economy.
A cold snap threatens to wreak havoc on the nation's harvests, including that of legendary vineyards from northern Champagne to southwestern Bordeaux.
The genet, mongoose and weasel are small carnivorous animals that love to feed on snakes and rodents and sometimes wreak havoc in poultry houses.
It's astonishing how much havoc a single person can wreak.
That a single person can wreak so much havoc!
The earthquake wreaked havoc in the city.
She wreaked her anger on his car.
On the Saturday, October 1, the torrential rains began to wreak damage east of Exeter.
Against a backdrop of economic devastation wreaked by COVID-19, from which the railway has been almost totally insulated by massive sums of public money, the RMT rail union is now calling for industrial action as a pay freeze beckons.
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The police abused their authority to wreak an innocent.
The criminal has been wreaked by the Judge to spend a year in prison.
Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy, to wreak a grudge of seventeen years.
their woe / Broods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreak / Itself abroad;
So tho' I scarce can ask it thee for hate, / Grant me some knight to do the battle for me, / Kill the foul thief, and wreak me for my son.
At heart they hate their horrid fates, and so wreak their poor spite on me who stand for everything they have not, and for all they most crave and never can attain.
Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain.
She wreaked of liquor. She also wreaked of anger, despair and unsatisfied sexuality, all mixed together.
VVhat barbarous mindes for grieuance more than needs, Vnnaturallie ſeeks wreake vpon their Lord, Their true annointed Prince, their lawfull king:
Would that before my death I might but see my son The empery in my stead over the people hold And rush upon his foes and take on them his wreak, At push of sword and pike, in fury uncontrolled.
However, no thought touch'd Minerva's mind, That any one should escape his wreak design'd.
For three causes Duke William entered this land to subdue Harold. One was, for that it was to him given by King Edward his nephew. The second was, to take wreak for the cruel murder of his nephew Alfred, King Edward's brother, and of the Normans, which deed he ascribed chiefly to Harold.
Of a surety none murdered the damsel but I; take her wreak on me this moment; for, an thou do not thus, I will require it of thee before Almighty Allah.
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