How to Use rubble in a Sentence

rubble

noun
  • The earthquake reduced the whole town to rubble.
  • Rescue workers managed to pull two injured people out of the rubble.
  • What was once a pool in the back of the property is now filled with rubble.
    — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The freezer, which used to hold ice cream, is now filled with rubble.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Eight-year-old Zlata and 9-year-old Sergiy were the last to be pulled from the rubble on Sunday.
    — Svitlana Vlasova, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Photos from the scene show the house in pieces, with rescue crews searching through the rubble.
    — CBS News, 23 Sep. 2023
  • There were 19 people in the gym, and 15 were caught under the falling rubble.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 24 July 2023
  • Crews covered the rubble left from the fire out of concern there might be asbestos in it.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
  • Bodies remain in the rubble, and those who knew, or loved, the dead have been forcibly displaced.
    — Salwan Georges, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • In a recording of their video call, seen by CNN, rubble litters the land where the cemetery once stood.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The Fire Department is still on the scene, searching through the debris and rubble that remains of the home.
    — Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The body of a security guard was later found in the rubble.
    — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Shay Stamps used to live across the street from Warfield; her father helped pull Warfield’s son out of the rubble the night of the tornado.
    — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • In Rolling Fork, the tornado reduced homes to piles of rubble and flipped cars on their sides.
    — Michael Goldberg and Emily Wagster Pettus, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Desks and chairs lie among the rubble while children's drawings are still taped to its crumbling walls.
    — Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Local officials said that the icon of the patroness of the city was retrieved from under the rubble.
    — Hanna Arhirova and Elise Morton, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • The footage from the ground also shows people working to search through rubble for any bodies.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Some, like the Di Baris, saw their businesses reduced to rubble.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 23 Aug. 2023
  • On the fourth day of search-and-rescue operations, Mustafa’s passport was found in the rubble.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
  • World Central Kitchen is using a barge and jetty made of rubble.
    — Manuel Canales, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Thousands more are missing and feared dead beneath the rubble.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Dec. 2023
  • While most of the rubble has been cleared, the town has yet to be rebuilt; most former residents live elsewhere and drive in to work.
    — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2023
  • What's more, the rocks that make up the rubble pile are thought to date back about 4.5 billion years — around the time our solar system was first forming.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The powerful blast reduced the church to rubble, mangling cars in the parking lot and stopping clocks.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • At least 185 structures were damaged, and many homes were reduced to rubble.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The mangled and charred wreckage of the truck could be seen being hauled away Monday, as crews with heavy equipment worked in the rubble of the collapse.
    — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 13 June 2023
  • The ministry says thousands more people are feared dead under the rubble.
    — Najib Jobain, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The islands’ residents are still picking their way through the storms’ rubble.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • And the search for bodies under the rubble of the complex continued on Saturday.
    — Tanya Stukalova, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Authorities are cognizant that the bodies of four of six construction workers who were on the bridge at the time of the collapse are possibly buried in rubble on the riverbed.
    — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024

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