How to Use rubble in a Sentence

rubble

noun

• The earthquake reduced the whole town to rubble.
• Rescue workers managed to pull two injured people out of the rubble.
• The house is now a pile of rubble.
  — Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 14 Mar. 2026
• What remained of the shop was a pile of rubble.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026
• Who wants to come someplace and be buried in rubble?
  — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026
• At least one car was trapped beneath the rubble.
  — ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
• At least one car was trapped beneath the rubble.
  — Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
• Iran says it is buried under the rubble of last year's war.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 16 Mar. 2026
• The toll could rise as rescuers search the rubble.
  — Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
• The victim’s body was found in the rubble.
  — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 19 Feb. 2026
• Squat piles of rubble dotted the lots.
  — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
• The freezer, which used to hold ice cream, is now filled with rubble.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• The death toll could rise as crews dig through rubble to find more victims.
  — Raymond Strickland, CBS News, 26 June 2026
• The story doesn’t end with rubble.
  — Ronnie Li, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
• Now, all that’s left is to pick up the pieces from the rubble of this season.
  — Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
• Qassem watched as Tawil and his team worked through the rubble.
  — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
• People and rescuers pull a body from the rubble at the site of the strike.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 9 Mar. 2026
• Left in the rubble are questions with no easy answers.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
• What was once a pool in the back of the property is now filled with rubble.
  — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
• The street in front of her building was littered with rubble and corpses.
  — James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
• The voice that once steadied its wings has gone silent beneath the rubble.
  — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
• There are piles of rubble and tangles of cable.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
• Her body was later found among her home’s rubble, Swayne said.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2026
• In the courtyard, there are geese in a pen — and a massive mound of rubble.
  — Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 19 May 2026
• Even as the rubble smoldered, a spark of hope was burning brighter.
  — MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
• Many of the bodies had been buried under rubble.
  — Npr Staff, NPR, 3 Mar. 2026
• Those, too, are nearly all gone, reduced to bricks and rubble.
  — ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
• Her body was pulled from the rubble hours later when rescuers were able to reach the scene.
  — Bassam Hatoum, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
• In the footage, the sound of barking can be heard coming from a dark crevice in the rubble.
  — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 1 July 2026
• The tremor caused the rubble to shift even closer, leaving him with even less room to move.
  — Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026