rubble
Example Sentences
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An AFP journalist in Nangarhar's Bihsud district said residents from around the remote and mountainous area joined rescuers in one village, using a digger and shovels to search for bodies under the rubble.
From Barron's
Footage from the time showed him, visibly in shock, sifting through the rubble for items that belonged to his wife and baby daughter.
From Barron's
It’s worthwhile sifting through the rubble of a selloff and asking how durable marked-down businesses are.
It was just a pile of rubble, and the only way you could tell what had been there was you could still put together some of the words from its also-decimated sign.
From Literature
AFP saw excavators scooping debris, and dozens of first responders and employees clearing rubble.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
