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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There was wreckage everywhere in the immediate moments that followed a crushing 4-3 loss that will cast doubt on everything the Phillies have built here.
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Matt Gelb, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Photographs from the scene showed a red helicopter upside down in the middle of the highway strewn with wreckage as first responders treated the injured.
—Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
The California Highway Patrol is working alongside the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration to investigate the crash and to arrange the wreckage’s removal, per ABC News.
—Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Residents sifted through the wreckage of an apartment block after their windows were blown in by the force of a blast.
—Pavel Polityuk, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
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Matt Gelb, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Photographs from the scene showed a red helicopter upside down in the middle of the highway strewn with wreckage as first responders treated the injured.
—Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
The California Highway Patrol is working alongside the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration to investigate the crash and to arrange the wreckage’s removal, per ABC News.
—Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Residents sifted through the wreckage of an apartment block after their windows were blown in by the force of a blast.
—Pavel Polityuk, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
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“Wreckage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wreckage. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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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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