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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Prospect left a trail of wreckage exceeding anything the state’s healthcare industry had ever endured.
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Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
In the Season 22 finale of the ABC medical drama, Owen survives a bridge collapse on his way to work and, true to form, springs into action to save all four members of a family who were also caught in the wreckage.
—Max Gao, Variety, 8 May 2026
Rescuers, including disaster officers and traffic police, evacuated victims and cleared the wreckage, though several were pinned inside the vehicles, complicating rescue efforts and disrupting traffic along the highway, Margono said.
—ABC News, 6 May 2026
Makan’s casket, however, is empty — a symbolic burial for a child whose body was never recovered from the wreckage.
—Zohreh Saberi, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
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Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
In the Season 22 finale of the ABC medical drama, Owen survives a bridge collapse on his way to work and, true to form, springs into action to save all four members of a family who were also caught in the wreckage.
—Max Gao, Variety, 8 May 2026
Rescuers, including disaster officers and traffic police, evacuated victims and cleared the wreckage, though several were pinned inside the vehicles, complicating rescue efforts and disrupting traffic along the highway, Margono said.
—ABC News, 6 May 2026
Makan’s casket, however, is empty — a symbolic burial for a child whose body was never recovered from the wreckage.
—Zohreh Saberi, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
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“Wreckage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wreckage. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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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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