wreckage
Example Sentences
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Before we see elephants at Elephant Valley in the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, we come face to face with destruction, only the wreckage is beautiful.
From Los Angeles Times
It had gathered power as it went, adding more melting ice, water, mud, and wreckage.
From Literature
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In Tel Aviv, residents still living with the wreckage from Iranian missile strikes last June are speculating about another conflict.
From BBC
He dived down, kicking, staring into the deep, dark, roiling blue—when a hand grabbed him and pulled him up and away from the swirling wreckage.
From Literature
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Or the pieces of a plane, hunks of metal wreckage scattered along the road and sidewalk.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.