How to Use train wreck in a Sentence

train wreck

noun
  • Should be a f*cking train wreck.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 24 Feb. 2026
  • What a train wreck, what a train wreck.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Is there going to be train wreck?
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That wasn’t grit—it as a slow-motion train wreck.
    — Jason Walker Psyd, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Snipes has been a train wreck for the better part of two decades.
    — Jane Coaston, Vox, 3 Dec. 2018
  • This is not Markle’s first train wreck of a pass through the press.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 18 June 2018
  • If your water is safe, what about those ponds where the train wreck is?
    — Stephanie Griffith, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Maybe not, but rest assured that many will stick around to watch the train wreck.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2022
  • If these train wreck Democrats get back in office, we are done.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Twitter have been a train wreck, few people seem able to look away.
    — Laura Forman, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • But Cavner knows what golf fans like, and that’s birdies and train wrecks.
    — Tad Reeve, Twin Cities, 3 June 2019
  • 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
  • Even their most basic pick-and-roll coverage has been a train wreck.
    — Brian Sampson, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Biden’s son Hunter is a father’s nightmare, a train wreck of a man.
    — John Kass, Twin Cities, 17 Dec. 2019
  • 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 initial load in sold through because people wanted to see the train wreck.
    — Kevin McGee, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The end of that Warriors tilt was like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Observe the full-fledged train wreck that is Venezuela’s public school system.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The Bulls’ defense is a train wreck, and the offense doesn’t mesh well enough to overcome it.
    — Jason Patt, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Anyway, yeah, what a colossal train wreck that Ramírez-for-Moss trade would have been.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 12 May 2025
  • For Young, that means tossing aside a blocker, a process Minter likened to a train wreck.
    — Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Josh Allen and the Buffalo offense’s start was a train wreck.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The 2025-26 Canucks were nothing short of a train wreck.
    — Thomas Drance, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Alexander’s track record at LSU was a dumpster fire on top of a train wreck.
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The couple is still trying to wrap their minds around one of Washington's worst train wrecks.
    — Jessica Oh, ajc, 19 Dec. 2017
  • In short, the trip, in the picture-perfect world of outdoors magazines, was a train wreck.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018

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