wreckage

Example Sentences

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The footballer's body was recovered from the plane wreckage about two-and-a-half weeks after the crash and repatriated to Argentina, but Ibbotson has never been found.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Some of the buildings at the Thahtay Kyaung monastery, where saffron-clad monks cleared rubble from the wreckage by hand in the days after the quake, have been razed.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

There was no one at the site who would have justified the targeting, he insisted, inviting journalists to look into vehicles or in the wreckage to see for themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

The immediate scale of his wreckage was unprecedented, but so was the level of resistance from the American public — two sides, fighting like hell to be the louder one.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2026

Tearing through wreckage near the collapsed “El,” he suddenly spotted a mass of yellow hair floating in a pool of molasses.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler