Examples of wreckage in a Sentence
Workers sifted through the wreckage of the building, searching for bodies.
They cleared the wreckage from the track.
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The thirty-nine-year-old Amelia Earhart and her crew of two navigators, Fred Noonan and Harry Manning, crawled out of the wreckage, unsettled but otherwise unhurt.
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Her body was recovered hours afterwards from beneath the wreckage of a building that was also damaged in the crash.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2025
He'll be buried beside his wife, Jean, who died in 2017, just months before the wreckage was located.
—CBS News, 26 May 2025
Federal investigators will examine the wreckage, interview witnesses, and analyze flight records to determine the probable cause of the accident.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 May 2025
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Her body was recovered hours afterwards from beneath the wreckage of a building that was also damaged in the crash.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2025
He'll be buried beside his wife, Jean, who died in 2017, just months before the wreckage was located.
—CBS News, 26 May 2025
Federal investigators will examine the wreckage, interview witnesses, and analyze flight records to determine the probable cause of the accident.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 May 2025
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“Wreckage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wreckage. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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wreckage
noun
wreck·age
ˈrek-ij 
1
a
: the act of wrecking
b
: the state of being wrecked
2
: the remains of a wreck
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