How to Use train wreck in a Sentence

train wreck

noun
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  • 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
  • The premise: en route to death row, a train wreck frees Kimble, who sets off in search of the One-Armed Man.
    — Donald Liebenson, HWD, 29 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • If these train wreck Democrats get back in office, we are done.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • For the Air Force, now is the calm before the budgetary storm—or, to use a more colorful metaphor—the calm before the train wreck.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2016
  • 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
  • Fate is a one-track, high-speed train wreck, and for the audience, this means a swift rush of endorphins.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • The nostalgia of seeing these classic Doctors back in action isn't enough to save this train wreck.
    — Adam Lujan, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Not so much for Ben Affleck, a Boston fan whose train wreck of a set aimed for a cartoonish attack on fans who criticize the quarterback but felt real and mirthless.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 7 May 2024

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