rubble
Example Sentences
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In a bitter postscript, the mansion burned to rubble in last year’s Southern California wildfires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Tents set up amid the rubble of collapsed hospitals are serving as makeshift emergency rooms for injured patients.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The noise of backhoes, cranes and bulldozers echoed across Colombia's quake-hit cities on Sunday as workers labored to remove rubble, though the chance of finding survivors was slim a week after the disaster.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Landslides, however, did block access to some villages but the experienced rescue teams worked tirelessly through the day to free those trapped under the rubble.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
He was nestled in a pile of rubble, wrapped in a warm blanket with his hood up against the light rain.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Vocabulary lists containing rubble
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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"The End and the Beginning," Vocabulary from the poem
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