Example sentences for: wreckage

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

  • The New York Times , the Washington Post , and the Los Angeles Times all go with across-the-top leads and gruesome photos of wreckage from massive Friday bombings at two U.S.

  • Does it not seem just a little bizarre that we can make amends but never just one “amend”; that no matter how carefully we comb through history, we can never discover just one “annal”; that, sifting through the wreckage of a disaster, we can never find just one “smithereen”; and that we never contract a single “heebie-jeebie”?

  • All the papers except the New York Times lead with the recovery of a large piece of wreckage from EgyptAir flight 990 and the discovery of an electronic beacon possibly emitted by its cockpit voice or data recorder (this story also tops the Wall Street Journal 's "Worldwide" box).

  • The NYT 's off-lead concerns testimony given yesterday at a House hearing about how a secret encoded circuit board containing sensitive U.S. technology was missing from the wreckage of a U.S. satellite aboard a Chinese rocket that blew up in 1996.

  • As long ago as 1939, Sir John Hicks, one of the founders of modern economics, noted that increasing returns, if tolerated, could lead to the "wreckage" of a large part of economic theory.)


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