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a
: broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building
fortifications knocked into rubble—
C. S. Forester
C. S. Forester
b
: a miscellaneous confused mass or group of usually broken or worthless things
2
: waterworn or rough broken stones or bricks used in coarse masonry or in filling courses of walls
3
: rough stone as it comes from the quarry
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Examples of rubble in a Sentence
Noun
Rescue workers managed to pull two injured people out of the rubble.
The earthquake reduced the whole town to rubble.
Recent Examples on the WebChristopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2024
Speaking of rubble, after the Kemper Arena roof collapsed in 1979, the city’s brain trust had those chunks of concrete dumped along the riverfront, too.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2024
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Noun
Puzzles mostly amount to finding the exact position in space where two seemingly unrelated things (like stray tree branches and rubble) align to create a unified image to unlock a door to progression.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2024
Speaking of rubble, after the Kemper Arena roof collapsed in 1979, the city’s brain trust had those chunks of concrete dumped along the riverfront, too.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2024
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“Rubble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rubble. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.
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