Examples of wrecking ball in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web For some reason, Guy is running on a tall building and leaps toward a hanging wrecking ball. — Rhett Allain, Wired, 27 Aug. 2021 XPEL Chevy became a wrecking ball that ended Sebastien Bourdais’ day on Lap 56 Saturday. — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2021 It’s not as if Portland didn’t see the wrecking ball swinging in its direction. — oregonlive, 25 May 2021 The shock smashes through the scene of relaxed domestic contentment like an emotional wrecking ball. — Keith Magee, CNN, 22 June 2021 To save it from the wrecking ball, it had been disassembled and put into shipping containers for storage. — CBS News, 27 June 2021 The ancient Coliseum Arena was abandoned by the Warriors two years ago and has been COVID-quiet for the last 15 months, but don’t send for the wrecking ball. — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 June 2021 Smith’s glass-top desk, rebuilt here, was a rectangular structure made of gray bricks, its leading corner knocked out—as if by a wrecking ball—to leave a stepped, Constructivist triangle of open air. — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 12 June 2021 Enter Harris, a 232-pound wrecking ball who would replace James Conner in the lineup. — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2021

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“Wrecking ball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrecking%20ball. Accessed 16 Sep. 2021.

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