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Wrack in sentence

10 examples of Wrack in a sentence

I did like the film and Wil Smith can wrack up another good film choice.
The reason I say "_____" is because no matter how hard I wrack my brain I just can't seem to come up with a word in ANY of the seven languages that movie was in to sum it up.
I don't know how, exactly, but I suppose from documentaries and "Odd Man Out," I'd gotten a picture of strife-torn Belfast as a heap of burned out urban wrack.
In a 1908 article, Veblen imagined economists explaining the behavior of “a gang of Aleutian Islanders slushing about in the wrack and surf with rakes and magical incantations for the capture of shellfish” in terms of utility maximization.
Such was the region our Nautilus was visiting just then: a genuine prairie, a tightly woven carpet of algae, gulfweed, and bladder wrack so dense and compact a craft's stempost couldn't tear through it without difficulty.
A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds.
On these rocks, in the midst of slippery wrack, abounded bivalve shell-fish, not to be despised by starving people.
Important changes had occurred; great blocks of stone lay on the beach, which was also covered with a thick carpet of sea-weed, algae, and wrack.
No; for marine plants abounded on the shore, glass-wort, ficoides, and all those fucaceae which form wrack.
The prawn-fishing would favour him by affordinghim an opportunity; and it would be a pretty scene too, a pretty spotfor love-making--their feet in a pool of limpid water while they watchedthe long feelers of the shrimps lurking under the wrack.