rubble

Example Sentences

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“Then proceed to the sleeping car and enter it through the rear door. We can talk privately there without bringing this entire case to rubble on our heads here in the open.”

From Literature

A year later the landscape has begun to recover, and several structures can be seen on lots that had been covered in rubble.

From Los Angeles Times

Deputy police commissioner Sahibzada Yousaf told local media that sniffer dogs and advanced technology were used to ensure everyone was rescued from the rubble.

From BBC

A cordon was put in place around the part-demolished building and an excavator machine, sitting on top of a pile of rubble.

From BBC

She searched among the rubble for some memory of him, finding a ceramic bear he had gifted her years before that bore the message “I love you.”

From Los Angeles Times