WREAK in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for WREAK, such as:
1. The recent storms have wreaked havoc on crops.
2. The new tax could wreak havoc among smaller companies.
3. These policies have wreaked havoc on the British economy.
4. He might remain in Switzerland and wreak his vengeance on my relatives.
5. Violent storms wreaked havoc on the French Riviera, leaving three people dead and dozens injured.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of WREAK
wreak
 v.  cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
Classic Sentence:
1  I wished to see him again, that I might wreak the utmost extent of abhorrence on his head and avenge the deaths of William and Justine.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
2  He might remain in Switzerland and wreak his vengeance on my relatives.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
3  But, in the education of her child, the mother's enthusiasm of thought had something to wreak itself upon.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
4  That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
5  There are thousands of such cases throughout the South, with the difference that the Southern white men in insatiate fury wreak their vengeance without intervention of law upon the Afro-Americans who consort with their women.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
6  She is captive unto those men of Belial, and they will wreak their cruelty upon her, sparing neither for her youth nor her comely favour.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  He resolved that nobody should be witness of his encounter with Tom; and determined, if he could not subdue him by bullying, to defer his vengeance, to be wreaked in a more convenient season.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  The noble Saxon had returned from the banquet, as we have seen, in no very placid humour, and wanted but a pretext for wreaking his anger upon some one.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence:
1  Some non-native species are harmless, but others wreak havoc on other species, human health and the economy.
2  The new tax could wreak havoc among smaller companies.
3  These policies have wreaked havoc on the British economy.
4  The recent storms have wreaked havoc on crops.
5  Violent storms wreaked havoc on the French Riviera, leaving three people dead and dozens injured.
6  The film The Killing Fields vividly depicts the carnage wreaked by Pol Pot's followers in Cambodia.
7  Cyber criminals, malware creators and scammers are serious about wreaking havoc with your computers and devices.