wreckage

noun wreck·age \ ˈre-kij \

|Updated on: 13 Aug 2018

Examples: wreckage in a Sentence

Definition of wreckage

1 : the act of wrecking : the state of being wrecked

2 a : something that has been wrecked

b : broken and disordered parts or material from something wrecked

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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

The valet had to be cut free from the wreckage but wasn't hurt and was sent home to rest, said Camilla Cooper, a spokeswoman from the Hyatt Regency hotel in central Sydney.

— caroline kwok, CNN, "What not to do if you're valet parking a Porsche," 31 May 2018
Sheriff’s and aviation investigators are still working to recover three victims from the wreckage of a plane that crashed into Vulcan Mountain near Julian, sparking a 12-acre brush fire, officials said Monday.

— lyndsay winkley, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Crews working to retrieve plane crash victims from Volcan Mountain canyon," 14 May 2018
The monument will include a nine-foot-long piece of steel that was pulled from the wreckage of the north tower during the cleanup following the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001.

— alyssa alfano, cleveland.com, "Medina Rotary Club breaks ground on 9/11 memorial," 23 Apr. 2018
National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Eric Weiss says national forest personnel found the wreckage Wednesday near St. Ignace in the Upper Peninsula.

— Fox News, "Wreckage believed to be from 1997 Michigan plane crash found," 13 July 2018
The foundation for the 2026 bid was built in the wreckage of a similar effort in 2010, when 14 of 22 members of FIFA’s executive committee rejected a U.S. bid and awarded the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, a tiny desert emirate with no soccer tradition.

— kevin baxter, latimes.com, "Sunil Gulati deserves an assist for bringing 2026 World Cup to North America," 22 June 2018
The Jayhawk crew found the wreckage at about 9 p.m. that day, the report says.

— zaz hollander, Anchorage Daily News, "Emergency beacon on plane in fatal crash near Whittier had wrong registration," 25 May 2018
In the wreckage, the officers who had set the trap for the southwest's Public Enemy No. 1 and the Parker woman, found both bodies riddled with bullets.

— sandiegouniontribune.com, "May 23, 1934: Bonnie and Clyde shot dead," 23 May 2018
Most of the deaths occurred when wind and falling trees caused buildings to collapse, leaving people buried in the wreckage.

— biswajeet banerjee, The Seattle Times, "Powerful storms kill at least 43 across northern India," 14 May 2018

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