wrecking ball , also: wrecker's ball

My body felt like it had been hit by a wrecking ball.

In most cases, even when they knew it was likely to be coming, the truth hit them like a wrecking ball.

It's just like you imagine your home would be getting hit by a wrecking ball.

It was long gone now, falling to the wrecking ball.

They were found in the factory just before the wrecking ball hit.

Some- thing that felt like a wrecking ball swung into him.

"It would be like putting a wrecking ball through the area," he said.

By the time the wrecking ball arrives, it's too late.

And if the agency has its way, the wrecking ball will soon strike many more.

I give this character about two weeks before he runs into a wrecking ball.

The next person is going to use more of a wrecking ball approach."

It felt as though a wrecking ball had smashed into my face.

You got any idea what a wrecking ball would do to a man?"

The junior high building faced the wrecking ball in 1999.

He came around a corner like a wrecking ball, nearly bowling me over.

But that was before the wrecking ball swung into the neighborhood.

Our old joint's being smashed up with a wrecking ball.

Many would be taken out by the wrecking ball to make way for suburban housing and development.

Probably as a direct result, she'd used a wrecking ball on each of her three marriages.

Last month, a group of community residents say, they saved it from the wrecking ball.

He had an arm like a wrecking ball, powerful yet unpredictable.

He has a retractable line and wrecking ball in both hands.

He is the nucleus, the wrecking ball in the Buffalo defense.

There was no reason to clean things out, since the next tenant would be a wrecking ball.

Her lungs felt as if they'd been crushed by a wrecking ball.