wreckage
Example Sentences
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Surveying the wreckage of their home, they told the BBC that on their return that Thursday evening they were forced to watch their neighbourhood going up in flames on TV.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Outside Odesa, after a recent drone explosion, we found 83-year-old Andrii Dudik, surveying the mangled wreckage of his house and garden.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
"We have already recovered a significant portion of the drone's wreckage, and the search for the additional fragments is ongoing," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
The surveys confirmed the wreckage was the Oryoku Maru and, more importantly, that a recovery operation was feasible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
I walked around the wreckage of a once-great shah and plopped onto the hot sand.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Vocabulary lists containing wreckage
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -age
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for June 12–June 18, 2021
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Compound Fracture
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