How to Use wreak in a Sentence

wreak

verb
  • Gangs have been wreaking mayhem in the city.
  • To be sure, the virus has wreaked havoc in so many ways.
    Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 21 May 2020
  • The Artist Known as Muse is here to wreak some bloody havoc.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Brynn is forced to clean up the havoc of the strange creature which has wreaked chaos across her town.
    Jaden Thompson, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But the storms wreak their greatest havoc on the health of the Middle East's people and their economies.
    Sophie Tremblay, CNN, 25 May 2022
  • The havoc that space wreaks on the human body is insane!
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The Spurs, of course, are all too familiar with the havoc the Hawks’ pint-sized point guard can wreak.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Feb. 2021
  • World War Hulk has Hulk return to Earth to wreak havoc.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Though not at the rate of states like New York, the coronavirus has wreaked havoc on Texas.
    Allie Morris, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2020
  • All of this could be a recipe for the coronavirus to wreak even more havoc in the coming months.
    Megan Molteni, Wired, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Many viruses are already known to wreak havoc in the brain.
    Sharon Guynup, Science, 29 Dec. 2021
  • That kind of extreme heat will wreak havoc on your hair.
    Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The senior duo of Prior Borick and Julia Bazylevych is ready to wreak havoc.
    Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • And the product surplus could wreak havoc on the supply chain next year.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 19 June 2020
  • On a day when the wind took players on circuitous routes around the Wrigley Field outfield, the sun wreaked havoc, too.
    Kerry Crowley, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The virus can wreak havoc even when schools put sharp limits on face-to-face teaching.
    Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Who would have imagined three weeks ago that the virus would wreak havoc in faraway Europe and the US?
    Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
  • Did the defense wreak havoc and cause turnovers? Kerry Coombs dialed up four blitzes in the first half.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Droughts and floods wreak damage throughout the nation.
    Karim Doumar, ProPublica, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Still, cats can wreak a little bit of havoc on space missions from home.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The changes could wreak havoc on some tech business models.
    Fortune, 16 Mar. 2021
  • But the minerals in such H2O can wreak havoc on your plumbing and skin.
    Gabrielle Hondorp, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The hot, dry weather wreaked havoc on the blueberry crop.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2019
  • But is there any reason to believe that CBD could wreak such havoc?
    Mike Adams, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Most of the protests are peaceful, but some have wreaked havoc on Oaxaca.
    Esmeralda Bermudezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Don't just watch out for the sun — getting too close to heaters and fireplaces can also wreak havoc on your skin.
    Katie Berohn, Good Housekeeping, 26 May 2020
  • Cramps can wreak havoc on your abdomen and even your lower back.
    Kaleigh Fasanella, Teen Vogue, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The release stated that Noack is aware of the high monetary costs of the damage feral hogs can wreak.
    Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The havoc that Trump has wreaked on America, and the rest of the world, in his eight weeks back in office requires some restraint in the deployment of this analogy.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Bird flu continues to wreak financial havoc for farmers, which is then trickling down to consumers in the form of higher prices, particularly on eggs.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2025

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