How to Use rubble in a Sentence

rubble

1 of 2 noun

• The earthquake reduced the whole town to rubble.
• Rescue workers managed to pull two injured people out of the rubble.
• What was once a pool in the back of the property is now filled with rubble.
  — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
• The freezer, which used to hold ice cream, is now filled with rubble.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• The boys were not in an Israeli prison, or dead in the West Bank, or under the rubble in Gaza.
  — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• Eight-year-old Zlata and 9-year-old Sergiy were the last to be pulled from the rubble on Sunday.
  — Svitlana Vlasova, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
• Photos from the scene show the house in pieces, with rescue crews searching through the rubble.
  — CBS News, 23 Sep. 2023
• There were 19 people in the gym, and 15 were caught under the falling rubble.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 24 July 2023
• Crews covered the rubble left from the fire out of concern there might be asbestos in it.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
• Bodies remain in the rubble, and those who knew, or loved, the dead have been forcibly displaced.
  — Salwan Georges, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• In a recording of their video call, seen by CNN, rubble litters the land where the cemetery once stood.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
• The Fire Department is still on the scene, searching through the debris and rubble that remains of the home.
  — Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
• The body of a security guard was later found in the rubble.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• Shay Stamps used to live across the street from Warfield; her father helped pull Warfield’s son out of the rubble the night of the tornado.
  — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• In Rolling Fork, the tornado reduced homes to piles of rubble and flipped cars on their sides.
  — Michael Goldberg and Emily Wagster Pettus, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2023
• Desks and chairs lie among the rubble while children's drawings are still taped to its crumbling walls.
  — Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
• Local officials said that the icon of the patroness of the city was retrieved from under the rubble.
  — Hanna Arhirova and Elise Morton, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
• Local officials said that the icon of the patroness of the city had been retrieved from under the rubble.
  — Hanna Arhirova, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2023
• Local officials said the icon of the patroness of the city was retrieved from under the rubble.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 July 2023
• Ukrainian officials said the icon of the patroness of the city had been retrieved from under the rubble.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 23 July 2023
• The footage from the ground also shows people working to search through rubble for any bodies.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
• Some, like the Di Baris, saw their businesses reduced to rubble.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 23 Aug. 2023
• On the fourth day of search-and-rescue operations, Mustafa’s passport was found in the rubble.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
• World Central Kitchen is using a barge and jetty made of rubble.
  — Manuel Canales, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• Thousands more are missing and feared dead beneath the rubble.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Dec. 2023
• While most of the rubble has been cleared, the town has yet to be rebuilt; most former residents live elsewhere and drive in to work.
  — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2023
• What's more, the rocks that make up the rubble pile are thought to date back about 4.5 billion years — around the time our solar system was first forming.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
• This week marks three months of war that continues to devastate Gaza as the bodies and rubble pile up in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre.
  — TIME, 11 Jan. 2024
• The powerful blast reduced the church to rubble, mangling cars in the parking lot and stopping clocks.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
• At least 185 structures were damaged, and many homes were reduced to rubble.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023

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rubble

2 of 2 verb

• The Gold Rush-era town of Greenville was reduced to ashen rubble.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2022
• That house of worship has been reduced to rubble amid the war.
  — Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 25 Mar. 2022
• Much of the city was pounded to rubble by Russian shelling.
  — Karl Ritter, ajc, 19 Mar. 2023
• Three floors lost walls and windows, and a store on the ground floor was reduced to rubble.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2022
• The storm left downed light poles and reduced a bank building made of bricks to rubble.
  — CBS News, 16 Dec. 2021
• By the time the Romans were finished with Carthage in 146 B.C., the entire city had been reduced to rubble.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2021
• The ship and pier weren’t the only structures at Seacliff to be reduced to rubble.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 12 Jan. 2023
• Thousands of Ukrainians have died in the war; cities have been reduced to rubble.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
• The tremors have reduced concrete buildings and homes to rubble.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2023
• In the comments, the actor’s fans wondered why White’s home had been reduced to rubble.
  — Alexandra Del Rosariostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• Homes and buildings were reduced to rubble as twisters tore through wide sections of the South, Midwest and parts of the Northeast.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2023
• The photos showed a house reduced to rubble by a Russian rocket.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2022
• Outside, the tornado had turned the farm's 103-year-old barn to rubble and strewn debris across the fields for hundreds of yards.
  — Todd Richmond and Scott Bauer The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
• In the town of Avdiivka, in eastern Ukraine, the near-constant Russian shelling has reduced the city to rubble.
  — Tyler Hicks Gaëlle Girbes, New York Times, 30 June 2023
• The town of roughly 1,000 people was reduced to rubble when flames tore through it last Wednesday.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• This week, the blaze decimated the historic town of Greenville, where streets have been reduced to rubble.
  — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2021
• Pictures of the aftermath showed a home reduced to rubble.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 7 July 2022
• Fires burned from one side of the Sierra to the other for the first time — and then the second time — reducing several towns to rubble.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2021
• Russian forces have bombed cities and towns across the country, reducing many to rubble.
  — Florent Bajrami, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2022
• Villages and cities where little feet used to run and chase each other, now reduced to rubble.
  — Arwa Damon, CNN, 7 Mar. 2022
• The explosion reduced the structure and the surrounding area to rubble.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• City centers full of shoppers have been reduced to rubble.
  — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
• Photos showed buildings reduced to rubble, with bricks and scraps of broken metal strewn on the streets.
  — Masrur Jamaluddin, CNN, 23 Nov. 2022
• In Rubizhne, just up the road from Severodonetsk, before-and-after pictures show parts of the city reduced to rubble.
  — Amy Cheng, Washington Post, 11 June 2022
• Thousands of people have died and dozens of cities and towns across Ukraine have been reduced to rubble during the more than nine months of the Russian onslaught.
  — Jamey Keaten, ajc, 12 Dec. 2022
• Three days into the conflict, a shell hit their two-story home, reducing much of it to rubble.
  — Samy Magdy, ajc, 16 June 2023
• The pandemic is reducing the fourth wall to rubble and carrying the pieces, one by one, to the scrap heap of history.
  — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2021
• The Gaza City clashes claimed the lives of nearly 250 people, mostly Palestinian, and reduced parts of the Gaza strip to rubble.
  — Melissa Jun Rowley, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• His post showed images of many buildings reduced to rubble.
  — Jon Gambrell and Cara Anna, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2022
• Aerial images of the scene show the home reduced to rubble as emergency personnel worked on the area.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2023

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