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Examples of wreckage in a Sentence
Workers sifted through the wreckage of the building, searching for bodies.
They cleared the wreckage from the track.
Recent Examples of wreckage from the Web
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While the other officer looked through the wreckage, Oluvic looked for the driver.
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Their bodies were found Saturday inside their white Chevy truck as rescuers for days painstakingly dug through the wreckage of the fallen pedestrian bridge at Florida International University.
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Witnesses described hearing a loud boom and moments later, finding victims, including construction workers across the wreckage and people trapped in cars.
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Rebel With a Pause Donetsk, Ukraine - A pro-Russian rebel stands guard February 26 while Ukrainian prisoners of war are forced to search through the wreckage of Donetsk’s airport for weapons and bodies.
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Witnesses described a chaotic rescue operation in a football field near the Tribhuvan International Airport, as rescue personnel and soldiers from the Nepal's army pulled survivors from the wreckage and a thick plume of black smoke covered the sky.
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Aside from the monument, visitors can also see pieces of the wreckage and the plane’s propeller on display at the Chase County Historical Museum & Library.
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On Friday, the veteran firefighter joined a team scouring through the wreckage of the latest disaster.
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Amid the chaos, a driver hoping to avoid the wreckage veered into Hepburn’s bicycle, tossing him to the ground, attorney Matt Morgan said at a news conference Monday.
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First Known Use of wreckage
1837
wreckage Synonyms
Synonyms
annihilation, decimation, demolishment, demolition, desolation, destruction, devastation, extermination, extinction, havoc, loss, obliteration, ruin, ruination, wastage;
Antonyms
Near Antonyms
rescue, salvage, salvation, saving;
conservation, preservation, protection;
reclamation, reconstruction, re-creation, refurbishment, regeneracy, remodeling, renovation, restoration;
Related Words
depredation, despoilment, despoliation;
breakup, collapse, disintegration, dissolution;
WRECKAGE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of wreckage for English Language Learners
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: the broken parts of a vehicle, building, etc., that has been badly damaged or destroyed
WRECKAGE Defined for Kids
Definition of wreckage for Students
- I therefore set out … to search for whatever wreckage the waves had washed ashore.
- —Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
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