How to Use rubble in a Sentence

rubble

1 of 2 noun

• The earthquake reduced the whole town to rubble.
• Rescue workers managed to pull two injured people out of the rubble.
• What was once a pool in the back of the property is now filled with rubble.
  — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
• The freezer, which used to hold ice cream, is now filled with rubble.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• The boys were not in an Israeli prison, or dead in the West Bank, or under the rubble in Gaza.
  — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• Eight-year-old Zlata and 9-year-old Sergiy were the last to be pulled from the rubble on Sunday.
  — Svitlana Vlasova, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
• Photos from the scene show the house in pieces, with rescue crews searching through the rubble.
  — CBS News, 23 Sep. 2023
• There were 19 people in the gym, and 15 were caught under the falling rubble.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 24 July 2023
• Crews covered the rubble left from the fire out of concern there might be asbestos in it.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
• Bodies remain in the rubble, and those who knew, or loved, the dead have been forcibly displaced.
  — Salwan Georges, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• In a recording of their video call, seen by CNN, rubble litters the land where the cemetery once stood.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
• The Fire Department is still on the scene, searching through the debris and rubble that remains of the home.
  — Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
• The body of a security guard was later found in the rubble.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• Shay Stamps used to live across the street from Warfield; her father helped pull Warfield’s son out of the rubble the night of the tornado.
  — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• In Rolling Fork, the tornado reduced homes to piles of rubble and flipped cars on their sides.
  — Michael Goldberg and Emily Wagster Pettus, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2023
• Desks and chairs lie among the rubble while children's drawings are still taped to its crumbling walls.
  — Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
• Local officials said that the icon of the patroness of the city was retrieved from under the rubble.
  — Hanna Arhirova and Elise Morton, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
• Local officials said that the icon of the patroness of the city had been retrieved from under the rubble.
  — Hanna Arhirova, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2023
• Local officials said the icon of the patroness of the city was retrieved from under the rubble.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 July 2023
• Ukrainian officials said the icon of the patroness of the city had been retrieved from under the rubble.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 23 July 2023
• The footage from the ground also shows people working to search through rubble for any bodies.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
• Some, like the Di Baris, saw their businesses reduced to rubble.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 23 Aug. 2023
• On the fourth day of search-and-rescue operations, Mustafa’s passport was found in the rubble.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
• World Central Kitchen is using a barge and jetty made of rubble.
  — Manuel Canales, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• Thousands more are missing and feared dead beneath the rubble.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Dec. 2023
• While most of the rubble has been cleared, the town has yet to be rebuilt; most former residents live elsewhere and drive in to work.
  — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2023
• What's more, the rocks that make up the rubble pile are thought to date back about 4.5 billion years — around the time our solar system was first forming.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
• This week marks three months of war that continues to devastate Gaza as the bodies and rubble pile up in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre.
  — TIME, 11 Jan. 2024
• And the search for bodies under the rubble of the complex continued on Saturday.
  — Tanya Stukalova, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2024
• Authorities are cognizant that the bodies of four of six construction workers who were on the bridge at the time of the collapse are possibly buried in rubble on the riverbed.
  — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024

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rubble

2 of 2 verb

• The Gold Rush-era town of Greenville was reduced to ashen rubble.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2022
• That house of worship has been reduced to rubble amid the war.
  — Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 25 Mar. 2022
• Much of the city was pounded to rubble by Russian shelling.
  — Karl Ritter, ajc, 19 Mar. 2023
• Three floors lost walls and windows, and a store on the ground floor was reduced to rubble.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2022
• The storm left downed light poles and reduced a bank building made of bricks to rubble.
  — CBS News, 16 Dec. 2021
• By the time the Romans were finished with Carthage in 146 B.C., the entire city had been reduced to rubble.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2021
• The ship and pier weren’t the only structures at Seacliff to be reduced to rubble.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 12 Jan. 2023
• Thousands of Ukrainians have died in the war; cities have been reduced to rubble.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
• The tremors have reduced concrete buildings and homes to rubble.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2023
• In the comments, the actor’s fans wondered why White’s home had been reduced to rubble.
  — Alexandra Del Rosariostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• Homes and buildings were reduced to rubble as twisters tore through wide sections of the South, Midwest and parts of the Northeast.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2023
• The photos showed a house reduced to rubble by a Russian rocket.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2022
• Outside, the tornado had turned the farm's 103-year-old barn to rubble and strewn debris across the fields for hundreds of yards.
  — Todd Richmond and Scott Bauer The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
• In the town of Avdiivka, in eastern Ukraine, the near-constant Russian shelling has reduced the city to rubble.
  — Tyler Hicks Gaëlle Girbes, New York Times, 30 June 2023
• The town of roughly 1,000 people was reduced to rubble when flames tore through it last Wednesday.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• This week, the blaze decimated the historic town of Greenville, where streets have been reduced to rubble.
  — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2021
• Pictures of the aftermath showed a home reduced to rubble.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 7 July 2022
• Fires burned from one side of the Sierra to the other for the first time — and then the second time — reducing several towns to rubble.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2021
• Russian forces have bombed cities and towns across the country, reducing many to rubble.
  — Florent Bajrami, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2022
• Villages and cities where little feet used to run and chase each other, now reduced to rubble.
  — Arwa Damon, CNN, 7 Mar. 2022
• The explosion reduced the structure and the surrounding area to rubble.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• City centers full of shoppers have been reduced to rubble.
  — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
• Photos showed buildings reduced to rubble, with bricks and scraps of broken metal strewn on the streets.
  — Masrur Jamaluddin, CNN, 23 Nov. 2022
• In Rubizhne, just up the road from Severodonetsk, before-and-after pictures show parts of the city reduced to rubble.
  — Amy Cheng, Washington Post, 11 June 2022
• Thousands of people have died and dozens of cities and towns across Ukraine have been reduced to rubble during the more than nine months of the Russian onslaught.
  — Jamey Keaten, ajc, 12 Dec. 2022
• Three days into the conflict, a shell hit their two-story home, reducing much of it to rubble.
  — Samy Magdy, ajc, 16 June 2023
• The pandemic is reducing the fourth wall to rubble and carrying the pieces, one by one, to the scrap heap of history.
  — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2021
• The Gaza City clashes claimed the lives of nearly 250 people, mostly Palestinian, and reduced parts of the Gaza strip to rubble.
  — Melissa Jun Rowley, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• His post showed images of many buildings reduced to rubble.
  — Jon Gambrell and Cara Anna, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2022
• Aerial images of the scene show the home reduced to rubble as emergency personnel worked on the area.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2023

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