Example sentences for: rubble

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

  • The WP devotes its front-page quake coverage to the story of 40-year-old Yuksel Er, who was pulled from the wreckage of his apartment building south of Istanbul Saturday after spending 97 hours trapped beneath 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.

  • 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).

  • In 1942, the Soviet army saved the world from Nazism by holding Stalingrad while the Germans pounded it to 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.


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