How do you use Rubble in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like debris or dust, plus the exact meaning.
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.
Using Rubble
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: debris, dust, junk, detritus.
- In the example corpus, rubble often appears in combinations such as: the rubble, rubble of, to rubble.
Context around Rubble
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rubble
- In this selection, "rubble" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, disposing, lies, killing and heap stand out and add context to how "rubble" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include amid the rubble in shati and amid the rubble of a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rubble" sits close to words such as advising, backwards and branding, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rubble
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A sea of concrete dust and rubble surrounds so many buildings. (11 words)
Almost two weeks after the earthquake, three people were pulled from the rubble on Friday alive. (16 words)
A burnt statue sits amid the rubble of a home, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (17 words)
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. (42 words)
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. (34 words)
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. (32 words)
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.
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.
A sea of concrete dust and rubble surrounds so many buildings.
Common combinations with rubble
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the rubble 110×
- rubble of 40×
- to rubble 24×
- rubble and 19×
- of rubble 18×
- rubble in 13×
- under rubble 9×
- and rubble 6×
- rubble the 6×
- rubble from 4×