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Rubble meaning
The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry. | A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock. | The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
Example sentences (20)
According to Earp, a resident has witnessed a truck loading off the rubble and has information that the truck is disposing rubble from a local building site.
A backhoe sits on a pile of rubble that used to be the original Hawthorn School in Vernon Hills as it continues to take down the years of additions to the facility.
Abdurrahman Kurdo, a business student and the manager of a hotel near the destroyed Antioch Greek Orthodox Church, was sifting through the rubble to salvage what he could of Antakya's culture.
A body was found Tuesday in the rubble of a collapsed building in Paris six days after it was destroyed by an explosion and a fire, a source close to the case told AFP.
Abu Muhammad, who spent about 24 hours trapped under the rubble, lies among other survivors on a ward.
A burnt statue sits amid the rubble of a home, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii.
A day earlier, a Russian rocket blast turned a village cafe and store in Hroza, a village in eastern Ukraine to rubble, killing at least 51 civilians, according to Ukrainian officials.
A dejected Somchai Saensuk looks out through his collapsed house wall at construction laborers clearing away the rubble.
A digger removes the rubble from the police station that was overrun by Hamas militants on Saturday.
Afghans congregate on a mound of rubble in the wake of the magnitude 6.3 earthquake that struck Herat.
Airstrikes smashed entire city blocks to rubble in the tiny coastal enclave and left unknown numbers of bodies beneath mounds of debris.
Almost two weeks after the earthquake, three people were pulled from the rubble on Friday alive.
A man walks through the rubble of destroyed buildings in Antakya, southern Turkey, on February 8, 2023.
Amid the rubble in Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, Alaa Mahdi likened the destruction to that of an "earthquake".
An extraordinary image of a young woman surrounded by the rubble of her own apartment after a air strike has offered a chilling insight into the reality of ’s war.
Another few swipes and the claw was eating into the room below, a rubble heap growing out of what was once a destination for families on vacation and businessmen on the road.
ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Rescue teams using thermal cameras to locate signs of life continued to pull out survivors out of mounds of rubble Saturday, five days after a major earthquake struck a sprawling border region of Turkey and Syria.
A pile of rubble left after a fire destroyed a Sherbrook Street apartment building has cost the City of Winnipeg tens of thousands of dollars, according to a city official.
A Queensland man who felt "morally bound" to travel to Eastern Europe and support Ukraine's fight against Russian invaders has found purpose, and love, among the rubble.
A Russian rocket blast turned a village cafe and store in eastern into rubble Thursday, killing at least 51 civilians in one of the deadliest attacks in the war in months, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top officials in Kyiv.