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train wreck
[ trein-rek ]
noun
- an accident in which a train or trains are severely damaged.
- Slang. a person who has experienced a personal failure, disaster, etc.
- Slang. a disastrous situation, occurrence, or process:
His football career has been a train wreck.
train wreck
noun
- an incident in which a train is severely damaged
- informal.something or someone that has suffered ruin or calamity
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Example Sentences
Or for the first time, if you missed the glorious train-wreck that was the Sex Pistols.
We love a train wreck because it makes us feel better about our own problems.
Aides quickly stopped the conversation, which one previously described in testimony as “a train wreck.”
This is, after all, the network that recently aired the train wreck that was The Sound of Music Live!
There can be no train wreck without first inventing the train.
Twice I booked for Sydney on my own—missed one boat through a train wreck, and the other was libeled at the dockhead.
In a train wreck, a soldier asserted that he had seen dozens of smashed corpses, although only one person was harmed.
She might have been killed in a train wreck or been married to the ape-trainer or gone to some other horrible conclusion.
That, of course, made it more than just an ordinary train wreck.
Next morning we found ourselves stranded at Plaquemine, by reason of a train wreck a few miles ahead.
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