Example sentences for: wreckage

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

  • The Financial Times (which led Monday with the news that BP Amoco, the United Kingdom's largest company, was about to take over Atlantic Richfield of the United States in an all-stock deal worth $25 billion) carried a front-page headline "America's illusions crash with downed stealth" and said that TV images of the wreckage have shattered "the illusion enjoyed by Americans for years that the US military's technologically superlative weaponry meant it could destroy unseen enemies with little or no danger to American life or property."

  • The LAT's top non-local story is on the architectural wreckage that litters Taiwan in the wake of Tuesday's massive earthquake.

  • Inside the same media moment, footage of Serbian villagers frolicking beside the wreckage of a downed F-117 stealth fighter punctured the technology's invincibility--and rekindled the debate over U.S. reliance on high-tech weaponry.

  • See, e.g., David France and Erika Check, "Asbestos Alert; How much of the chemical does the World Trade Center wreckage contain?"

  • 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.


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