Definition of wreckage
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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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The crash trapped the occupants inside their vehicles and emergency workers used special extrication tools to cut them out from the wreckage, officials said.
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The unidentified officer was pulled from the wreckage and the officer’s condition later was upgraded to stable.
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His family, friends and colleagues are left now to sift through this bizarro wreckage —
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His family, friends and colleagues are left now to sift through this bizarro wreckage —Rich was, as one friend told me, unlucky twice.
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The plan was for Trump to make a speech to dedicate the September 11 and Article 5 monument, which consists of a piece of the wreckage of the World Trade Center.
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His fellow crew members found him in the wreckage, unconscious and bleeding from the ears.
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The bulk of the wreckage was hauled away by North Vietnamese authorities.
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Crews are currently combing the Kamchatka Peninsula for the wreckage, so that engineers can confirm that the spacecraft failed to separate from the launch rocket.
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First Known Use of wreckage
1837
WRECKAGE Defined 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
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1 : the remains of a wreck I therefore set out … to search for whatever wreckage the waves had washed ashore. — Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
2 : the act of wrecking : the state of being wrecked
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