1
a
: broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building
fortifications knocked into rubble—
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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
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.
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Volodymyr Yurchuk, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
Firefighters from the Philadelphia Fire Department, using a search dog, continued to sift through the rubble in the Nicetown neighborhood Sunday afternoon, looking for victims and what caused the blast, according to Daniel McCarty, the fire department's executive officer.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 29 June 2025
The impact of those bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran; so anyone who says the bombs were not devastating is just trying to undermine the president and the successful mission.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 26 June 2025
Officials said 95% of the victims died at the scene, many buried under rubble from airstrikes targeting nuclear, military, and residential sites.
—Amanda Castro
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shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
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Noun
In addition to aerial attacks, a man died when Russian troops shelled the city of Kherson, and the body of a 70-year-old woman was found under the rubble of a nine-story building hit by Russian shelling in the Zaporizhzhia region.
—Volodymyr Yurchuk, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
Firefighters from the Philadelphia Fire Department, using a search dog, continued to sift through the rubble in the Nicetown neighborhood Sunday afternoon, looking for victims and what caused the blast, according to Daniel McCarty, the fire department's executive officer.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 29 June 2025
The impact of those bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran; so anyone who says the bombs were not devastating is just trying to undermine the president and the successful mission.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 26 June 2025
Officials said 95% of the victims died at the scene, many buried under rubble from airstrikes targeting nuclear, military, and residential sites.
—Amanda Castro
hannah Parry
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
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“Rubble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rubble. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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