wreckage
Example Sentences
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The wind was biting, so we stopped by the wreckage of an old farm building to seek shelter.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
The disorder looks like the wreckage of an unknown chaos.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Nobody survived and HMS Erebus's exact fate remained unknown until 2014, when its wreckage was uncovered in the icy waters of northern Canada.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
She unlocked the doors, crawled from the wreckage and rolled herself away from the vehicle.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Then he shouldered his quiver and bow, and scrabbled in the wreckage for his small black basalt axe.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Vocabulary lists containing wreckage
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -age
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for June 12–June 18, 2021
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Compound Fracture
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