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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Scarborough and his colleagues have emerged from the cable apocalypse, blinking and a little stunned but surprisingly optimistic, into the wreckage and opportunity of a new television landscape.
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Max Tani, semafor.com, 17 Nov. 2025
The entire world has been destroyed; only a heap of ashes, bodies, and wreckage remains.
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Deep underneath the wreckage of Rafah, southern Gaza, the war is not over.
—Eugenia Yosef, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
Footage shared by the prosecutor's office captured the wreckage of the bus on the banks at the ravine as emergency responders inspected the site.
—Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
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Max Tani, semafor.com, 17 Nov. 2025
The entire world has been destroyed; only a heap of ashes, bodies, and wreckage remains.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Deep underneath the wreckage of Rafah, southern Gaza, the war is not over.
—Eugenia Yosef, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
Footage shared by the prosecutor's office captured the wreckage of the bus on the banks at the ravine as emergency responders inspected the site.
—Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for wreckage
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“Wreckage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wreckage. Accessed 23 Nov. 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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