How to Use train wreck in a Sentence

train wreck

noun
  • This is not Markle’s first train wreck of a pass through the press.
    Breanna Edwards, The Root, 18 June 2018
  • Snipes has been a train wreck for the better part of two decades.
    Jane Coaston, Vox, 3 Dec. 2018
  • The 2019 baseball season — a train wreck for Sale and the Red Sox — is over.
    Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Maybe not, but rest assured that many will stick around to watch the train wreck.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2022
  • But Cavner knows what golf fans like, and that’s birdies and train wrecks.
    Tad Reeve, Twin Cities, 3 June 2019
  • If your water is safe, what about those ponds where the train wreck is?
    Stephanie Griffith, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Here’s just one slow-moving train wreck that hit the feeds over the weekend.
    Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 6 July 2021
  • The Bears are a train wreck riding a five-game losing streak.
    Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Fans should set up shop near one of those greens and wait for a train wreck or two among dozens of birdies.
    Tad Reeve, Twin Cities, 3 June 2019
  • The Bulls’ defense is a train wreck, and the offense doesn’t mesh well enough to overcome it.
    Jason Patt, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Biden’s son Hunter is a father’s nightmare, a train wreck of a man.
    John Kass, Twin Cities, 17 Dec. 2019
  • And the third couple was a train wreck: The woman abandoned the project after one week.
    Jenna Birch, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Alexander’s track record at LSU was a dumpster fire on top of a train wreck.
    John Canzano, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Twitter have been a train wreck, few people seem able to look away.
    Laura Forman, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Manfred is like a guy spreading doilies over a train wreck.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2023
  • Josh Allen and the Buffalo offense’s start was a train wreck.
    Albert Breer, SI.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • But what’s clear is that, internally, the BPD is a train wreck.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2021
  • The initial load in sold through because people wanted to see the train wreck.
    Kevin McGee, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2023
  • However, no one needs to see the real live train wreck.
    John Brandon, Forbes, 20 June 2022
  • Ryan Pace’s drafting skills are a complete train wreck.
    Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • In short, the trip, in the picture-perfect world of outdoors magazines, was a train wreck.
    Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018
  • Observe the full-fledged train wreck that is Venezuela’s public school system.
    Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2023
  • But this year's show sounds like a recipe for an interesting sort of train wreck.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Is this really enough to redeem such a train wreck of a season?
    Justin Kirkland, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Although the writer Thompson is a train wreck in this show, the musical is not.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • As many people have now seen from this train wreck of a project, plastic sheets don’t control weeds but do hurt the soil and roots of trees.
    Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • These last two years have been an unbelievable train wreck of loss.
    Dallas News, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The Dolphins have been a train wreck after halftime this season, and their next score in the second half will be their first.
    Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Like the time in Lake Tahoe where the atmosphere was like a train wreck — people talking, TV blaring.
    Cindy Atoji Keene, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2018
  • Don Brochu: When the train wreck hit during a test screening, there was a buzz in the audience for over two minutes.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023

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