Examples of wreckage in a Sentence
Workers sifted through the wreckage of the building, searching for bodies.
They cleared the wreckage from the track.
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Jennifer shared photos of the helicopter wreckage as well as her husband in the hospital.
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Victoria Edel, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
The road-cutters often target the same chokepoints, striking vehicle after vehicle and creating traffic-impeding piles of wreckage.
—David Axe, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
The event also brought attendees back to its storied spot along the West Coast (coincidentally, the location is changing next year) — just a few miles south of the wreckage left by last month’s devastating wildfires in the Pacific Palisades.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 24 Feb. 2025
Modern international law emerged from the wreckage of world wars.
—Gyunduz Mamedov, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
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Victoria Edel, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
The road-cutters often target the same chokepoints, striking vehicle after vehicle and creating traffic-impeding piles of wreckage.
—David Axe, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
The event also brought attendees back to its storied spot along the West Coast (coincidentally, the location is changing next year) — just a few miles south of the wreckage left by last month’s devastating wildfires in the Pacific Palisades.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 24 Feb. 2025
Modern international law emerged from the wreckage of world wars.
—Gyunduz Mamedov, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
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“Wreckage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wreckage. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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wreckage
noun
wreck·age
ˈrek-ij 
1
a
: the act of wrecking
b
: the state of being wrecked
2
: the remains of a wreck
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