1. Acute dysentery wracked and sapped life from his body.

2. We all knew they gave you a wracking cough.

3. Cities and countryside have been wracked by thousands of small protests over the past years as malfeasance has grown to record levels.

4. She came again, her body wracked with spasms, her nails tearing into his arms.

5. The other one was wracked with arthritis, from unloading the ore boats in too many Chicago winters.

6. The bank was wracked by internal divisions between the bank's traditional managers and the outsiders headed by Sir Kit.

7. I was wracked by anxiety and guilt even before I made the decision.

8. Of the original scheme a wrack remains.

9. Of the original scheme hardly a wrack remains.

10. The car will soon go to wrack and ruin standing out in all kinds of weather.

11. Death instinct generates attack, destroy, war, and other wrack and ruin behavior.

12. Periodic crises wrack the capitalist system, and they grow in size and duration.

13. They've been in a very terrible trolley car wrack .

14. Then long-forgotten things like "sunken wrack and sumless treasuries, "burst upon my eager sight, and I begin to feel, think(), and be myself again.

15. The barn went to wrack and ruin after the farmer moved.

16. The wrack had begun to stink as it rotted in the sun.

17. The wrack of the city was still hot from the fire.

18. When friends encountered him, they were shocked to discover how wracked by dysentery his body was.

19. Few disciples followed him, his purist rigour being unsuited to compromise or the political infighting which wracked the sectarian Left.

20. The extra weight acted as levers which made Hsu Fu twist and wrack even more.

21. He lay prostrate before the Lord as his body was wracked with sobs.

22. There she was as passive as possible to the weather, neither wracking nor bending unduly on the crests of the rollers.

23. Stephen closed his eyes to hear his boots crush crackling wrack and shells.

24. The consequence of desperation to develop is exhaustion of resources and deterioration of environment which lead the mankind to wrack and ruin and lead the economy to back up.