Example sentences for: rubble

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

  • 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.

  • The Russians are pounding their own city, Grozny, to rubble and are murdering Russian civilians in the process.

  • Among their first moves: pulling a Kenyan businessman out alive from the rubble.

  • 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.

  • You will need more than a little imagination to re-enact the scene of 1,600–1,700 years ago from the knee-high rubble, but you will find help in the small museum attached to the site.


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