What's the difference between wrackful and wreckage?
Wrackful
Definition:
(a.) Ruinous; destructive.
Example Sentences:
(1) And it is wracked with cultural conflict between about 12,000 long-time Williston residents and at least 21,000 newcomers who’ve arrived over the past five-odd years.
(2) Cyclones will wrack the coast more frequently, and with more intensity.
(3) All three states have been wracked with conflict since December 2013, when a power struggle broke out between Salva Kiir, the South Sudanese president, and his former vice-president Riek Machar.
(4) Matt Wrack, the general secretary, said: "The government must realise that firefighters cannot accept proposals that would have such devastating consequences for their futures, their families' futures, and the future of the fire and rescue service itself.
(5) It represented the first confirmation of US military operations within insurgency-wracked Syria, where Isis gestated into the jihadist organisation that has redrawn the borders of the Middle East.
(6) Matt Wrack , the FBU general secretary, said: "The FBU has wanted to settle our dispute for a long time, but the government at Westminster is simply not listening.
(7) Yemen was already the poorest country in the Middle East, wracked by conflict and struggling in a transition to a more secure future.
(8) The Global Times wrote an editorial on Friday in which it noted that he is the first western official in recent years to have visited the violence-wracked region of Xinjiang and stressed its business potential instead of “finding fault over the human rights issue”.
(9) But with their host country wracked by civil war for nearly a year, they’ve had to make other plans.
(10) The mechanism of antimutagenicity of water extracts of grass-wrack pondweed (Potamogeton oxyphylus Miquel), curled pondweed (Potamogeton crispus L.) and smartweed (Polygonum hydropiper L.) towards benzo[a]pyrene mutagenicity in Salmonella typhimurium was investigated.
(11) In a region already wracked by water scarcity and conflict, more drying could ratchet up tension even further.
(12) The transcendence they are remembering is the aim of the art of dancing: the aim of a dancer's entire wracked body to become one with the music.
(13) 7.49pm BST Another Man In Suit accuses the Federal Reserve of being wracked with division.
(14) Committee members whose future in Momentum is in doubt include Jill Mountford, of the Trotskyist group Alliance for Workers’ Liberty, and the former Militant activist Nick Wrack, both of whom were expelled from the Labour party last year.
(15) The western powers played the decisive role in the overthrow of the Libyan regime – acting in the name of protecting civilians, who then died in their thousands in a Nato-escalated civil war, while conflict-wracked Syria was threatened with intervention and Iran with all-out attack.
(16) But as well as the absence of several key leaders, including Barack Obama , Angela Merkel and David Cameron , the conference organisers are struggling to adjust to the blurring of battles lines as Europe is wracked by crisis, and emerging economies of China, Brazil, India and Russia pull ahead of the rest of the developing world.
(17) In an email trail detailing exchanges between Momentum’s steering committee members, Chessum, an ally of Mountford and Wrack, grew increasingly exasperated as it became clear that the plans, which were drawn up secretly by Lansman, would be approved.
(18) The healthcare bill will funnel $100bn to states over a decade to stabilize what are sure to be markets wracked by chaos, assuming this legislation survives intact to Trump’s desk.
(19) As well as sending his spin on grunge, punk and rockabilly down the Saint Laurent catwalk, Slimane shoots all the label’s advertising campaigns and unveiled Saint Laurent’s new beginning under his direction with images of Christopher Owens , a classic rock lost boy with a back catalogue of wracked, emotional songs and an action-packed past.
(20) The former Himalayan kingdom has been wracked by protests in the wake of the killing of a popular young militant separatist by security forces on 8 July.
Wreckage
Definition:
(n.) The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked.
(n.) That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Zliten hospital spokesman told Associated Press that 60 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage, though Fozi Awnais, from the health ministry in Tripoli, later said 47 people had died and 118 more were injured.
(2) Former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, also weighed in for Clinton in a New York Times opinion piece on Friday, declaring: “Donald J Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.” Republicans stumbling from the wreckage of a terrible week are worrying about how to contain the damage further down the ballot paper in November as people running for seats in Congress and at state level risk being swept away.
(3) The Malaysian prime minister later says the debris is very likely wreckage from a Boeing 777 , and that it is being sent to France to establish whether it is from flight MH370.
(4) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
(5) All this human wreckage leads to a nondescript white truck that could not be stopped by the weight of people in front of it or the bullets from the police officers who fired at it.
(6) Search depths for MH370 4 October: It is revealed that the new underwater search involves ships dragging sonar devices called towfish through the water at about 100 metres above the seabed to hunt for wreckage.
(7) Six pieces of debris have so far been confirmed as MH370 wreckage.
(8) Tony Abbott announced the memorial plans while admitting his frustration at the inability of the multinational police team, including unarmed Australian federal police, to enter the wreckage site in eastern Ukraine to recover bodies.
(9) When this noise was compared with radar returns it showed that eight seconds after the explosion, the wreckage had a one nautical mile (1.9km) spread .
(10) But the latest computer models from the Japanese government and Noaa suggest most of the wreckage that will make landfall will begin washing up this October and continue into late 2013.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An image from video shows wreckage of SpaceShipTwo.
(12) McKeown, the director of west coast operations, and Kirkham, said O’Reilly had in the moments beforehand irritated residents who were trying to put out fires and clear wreckage.
(13) Although Nepal celebrated the rescue of two people pulled alive from the wreckage of buildings in the capital, Kathmandu, on Thursday , the sheer extent of the destruction of the 7.8-magnitude quake is becoming clear.
(14) Nepal earthquake: two rescued after five days in Kathmandu building wreckage Read more The official death toll in Nepal has reached 5,489.
(15) Two news helicopters collided in midair in Phoenix in 2007 as the aircraft covered a police chase, sending fiery wreckage plummeting onto a park.
(16) But if trapped deep inside wreckage or an underwater trench, the effectiveness can be hindered.
(17) District chief Patthikongpan said that the barnacles on the wreckage caused fishermen to believe it could have not been under the sea for more than a year, further casting doubt.
(18) The wreckage of the high-performance plane carrying Rochester real estate developer Laurence Glazer and his entrepreneur wife, Jane, both experienced and enthusiastic pilots had not been found early on Saturday, a day after US fighter pilots launched to shadow the unresponsive aircraft observed the pilot slumped over and its windows frosting over.
(19) Authorities confirmed that two bodies had been retrieved from outside of the plane's wreckage.
(20) During this period some parts were removed, therefore it was not possible to retrieve all wreckage pieces.