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.
• The lifeboat that was pulled down was still tethered to the wreckage.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 1 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• But how the body repairs this kind of wreckage has been a source of mystery.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• Titan wreckage was found on the ocean floor about 550 yards from the bow of the Titanic.
  — oregonlive, 6 July 2023
• 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 wreckage, agents found a used pill press covered in blue fentanyl residue.
  — Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2023
• One boy, his face covered in blood, cried as workers dug him out of the dirt and wreckage.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2023
• Hours later, workers pulled a body out of the wreckage and placed it in a black plastic bag.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
• Parts of the wreckage from the aircraft later washed ashore and were recovered.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
• He was not poisoned with a weapons-grade toxin or found in the wreckage of an aircraft that plunged from the sky.
  — Greg Miller, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
• In the dark below, the ultimate apex predator — a great white shark — hunts in the wreckage and is drawn to the smell of fresh blood in the water.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 13 Feb. 2024
• The main fire may be out but everyone will be picking through the wreckage for some time.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• The couple had met while working there over a decade and a half ago, and Mr. Catton drank a final toast to the Crooked House in the wreckage.
  — Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• The flaming wreckage blocked traffic—and that’s when the Ukrainian artillery opened fire.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2022
• But clinging to the wreckage of their homes, and hometowns, are residents who refuse to leave.
  — Emile Ducke Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• Darrell ran toward the bomb site, arriving just in time to see Shea’s body pulled from the wreckage.
  — Ayelet Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
• In some places, the storm surge through the city had created clogs, bulging masses of wreckage that blocked traffic.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• Meanwhile, against all odds, people are still being pulled alive from the wreckage of their homes.
  — Laura Saravia, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2023
• It got shut down in 2016, after getting clogged with wreckage.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
• People searched for days through the wreckage looking for valuables.
  — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
• Tarek’s bare feet are covered in mud from walking through the side streets helping neighbors go through the wreckage of their homes.
  — Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
• Alania waited alone until the fire rescue team arrived and cut her out of the wreckage.
  — Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2023
• The Air Force declined to identify the five people found inside the wreckage on Monday.
  — Lucy Craft, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024