wracking in A Sentence

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    Our villages wracked with sickness.

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    That was nerve Wracking for me. See?

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    They're exciting and fun, and yet, nerve Wracking and tricky.

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    Later he said,“We live in a world wracked by strife.

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    To make them even more nerve Wracking, they all include launch capsules.

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    The country is suffering from rampant illegal fishing practices and wracked by civil war.

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    Lady Macbeth becomes wracked with guilt from the crimes she and her husband have committed.

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    The injection induced an explosive seizure that wracked the man's body for a full minute.

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    Wrack” probably came from the Middle Dutch“wrak”, meaning“wreck”, which eventually gave rise to“wrack” as in“shipwreck” and“wrack” as in“damage, destroy”.

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    On the contrary, the wrack of ice built up around the shore of King William Land was thicker than Lt.

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    After he gouges Pluto's eye, he is wracked with guilt, which eventually turns to anger, leading him to hang Pluto.

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    Can such ideas resonate in a society wracked by poverty and hunger, riven by civil strife and worried about fiscal crisis?

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    On the contrary. The wrack of ice built up around the shore of King William Land was thicker than Lieutenant Gore expected.

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    Yet when Jon was struck down with pox, Catelyn spent all night at his bedside, wracked with guilt, praying for him to live.

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    Whilst interviews can be nerve Wracking experiences, you should remember that the interviewer is only human and it is possible that s/he is nervous also.

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    Whilst job interviews can be nerve Wracking experiences, you should remember that the interviewer is only human and it is possible that s/he is nervous also.

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    Holden wracks his brain, and finally comes up with the fact that he likes Allie, even though he is dead, and he likes talking to Phoebe.

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    This was particularly apparent for wrack-associated species- the small invertebrates that inhabit the upper intertidal zone and rely on stranded kelp wrack for food and shelter.

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    Whilst job interviews can be nerve Wracking experiences, it should be remembered that the interviewer is only human and it is possible that they are nervous also.

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    Whilst job interviews can be nerve Wracking experiences, it should be remembered that the interviewer is only human and it is possible that s/he is nervous also.

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    Men put beautiful woman on this high pedestal and then it can be quite challenging and nerve Wracking if you ask one out and she actually accepts.

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    It can be a bit nerve Wracking to take on any new sport, but there is perhaps no athletic activity that intimidates beginners quite as much as skydiving.

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    Chloe, now wracked with guilt, confessed to her friends, who then promptly turned on her, dragged her from her bed in the middle of the night, and hanged her.

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    Even as she faces the task of bringing a country wracked by violence back on its feet, the Awami League has faced allegations of targeting activists and stifling democratic voices.

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    On that note, as a general rule, quite often when you aren't sure whether you should put“wrack” or“rack”,“rack” probably includes a definition for what you mean, while“wrack” doesn't necessarily do so.

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    This soon extended to meaning any flotsam, jetsam, seaweed, etc. washed up on the beach, which in turn gave rise to the definition“state of disrepair or decay”, hence the expression“wrack and ruin”.

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    There are some language guides, generally the ones that pay a lot of attention to the etymology of“rack” and“wrack”, that will still say it is“racking your brain” not“Wracking your brain”, but these are becoming few and far between.

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    Since the announcement of the reboot and the choice of a new actor that he was going to play Hellboy, many of the fans who appreciated Del Toro's first two films, and who may have known comics thanks to them, wracked their noses.

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    You can see from this why linguists who put a lot of stock into the etymology of a word over current accepted definitions would say that“wrack your brain” would be incorrect as you aren't meaning“to bring your brain into a state of decay or disrepair” or to“wreck your brain”.

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    However, given that people have been writing this expression(and many others that use“wrack” and“rack”) both ways nearly as long as the expression has commonly existed, the bottom line is that you aren't going to go afoul of many English language guides if you write“Wracking your brain” instead of“racking your brain”.

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