Example sentences for: rubble

How can you use “rubble” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The papers say that rescuers continue on the trail of faint noises in the hopes of finding survivors-- USAT dedicates its news section cover story to the ongoing hunt for "Rosie," the last unaccounted-for person contacted alive inside the rubble.

  • Note the rock debris or rubble (moraine in the language of glaciologists) in front of the glacier showing that the Athabasca is retreating — a hundred years ago it reached to the other side of the Parkway.

  • He either "emerges intact from the rubble" (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker ) or proves "he can be as much of an overmuscled jackass as Sylvester Stallone" (David Edelstein, Slate).

  • Relief teams complain that the Turkish government is encouraging them to leave, even though a 4-year-old was rescued from the rubble yesterday and survivors have been uncovered in ruins two weeks after previous quakes.

  • Some of its splendor fell victim to 19th-century building speculation, but the avenue remained fashionable until the bombs of World War II reduced it to rubble.


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