How to Use wreckage in a Sentence

wreckage

noun

• They cleared the wreckage from the track.
• Workers sifted through the wreckage of the building, searching for bodies.
• In the meantime, the Nets are left with the wreckage of what could have been.
  — Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• The lifeboat that was pulled down was still tethered to the wreckage.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 1 Mar. 2023
• This is a pear tree that was found alive in the wreckage of the towers.
  — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
• Some of the rescuers leave toys pulled from the wreckage.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
• After about six-and-a-half hours, the girls were freed from the wreckage.
  — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• The names of the two people found dead in the wreckage of the home has not yet been released.
  — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 13 May 2025
• In the yard, a group of teachers surveyed the wreckage.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
• Crawling out from the wreckage of what was once a home.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2021
• In the dark below, a great white shark hunts in the wreckage and is drawn to the smell of fresh blood in the water.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2023
• At the center of the wreckage removal is a massive decades-old crane – the largest on the East Coast.
  — Kathryn Fink, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
• Its wreckage was found on the ocean floor about 330 yards off the bow of the Titanic.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 13 June 2025
• The battle now will be for what the White House and Democrats can salvage from the wreckage.
  — Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly and Kaitlan Collins, CNN, 19 Dec. 2021
• Parts of the wreckage washed ashore and were recovered.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• The wreckage in Odessa was far worse than in Moscow or Crimea.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• He was pulled from the wreckage by witness Nathaniel Jahn.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2024
• The cleanup of the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge is underway.
  — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
• That’s good news for investors who can sort through the wreckage to find the few SPACs that are poised to grow.
  — Peter Cohan, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• Saling picked up a piece of the wreckage, clutched it to her chest, and began to cry.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• But how the body repairs this kind of wreckage has been a source of mystery.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• An image posted by the city showed what appeared to be the wreckage of one of the planes.
  — Joe Studley, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2022
• What, then, can Democrats salvage from the wreckage of the Biden agenda?
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 15 Jan. 2022
• Titan wreckage was found on the ocean floor about 550 yards from the bow of the Titanic.
  — oregonlive, 6 July 2023
• First responders remained on the scene through the night to clear the wreckage.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 16 July 2022
• In less than 30 seconds, the wreckage of the Beechcraft appeared beneath the right wing.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
• In the wreckage below, men pulled the limp body of a child from under a slab next to a burning car.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 6 Dec. 2023
• The strike reduced the house to a vast crater blanketed with wreckage.
  — TIME, 17 Oct. 2023
• In the end, there might be little to salvage from the wreckage of OceanGate.
  — Mark Harris, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
• The main parts of the wreckage, including the passenger cabin and left wing, came to rest in a neighborhood street about a quarter of a mile away, the NTSB said.
  — Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 18 June 2025