How do you use Rubble in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like debris or dust, plus the exact meaning.
Rubble in a sentence
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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)
Cohen said the team believes there are between four and ten people still alive and trapped there under the rubble.
As per the report, many buildings in Aleppo were damaged or destroyed and people remain trapped under the rubble.
During the earthquake only four adults escaped, while the other 35 people were found dead in the rubble of the hotel.
Amid the rubble in Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, Alaa Mahdi likened the destruction to that of an "earthquake".
It took relatives, neighbours and rescue teams more than six hours to remove the bodies from beneath the rubble.
Özfirat, who was also rescued from the rubble eight hours later, said, “This is our first concert after Feb. 6 quakes.
One person has been recovered from the rubble, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said on Friday afternoon.
A dejected Somchai Saensuk looks out through his collapsed house wall at construction laborers clearing away the rubble.
A three metre section of wall on the bridge, between the road and the pedestrian walkway, was however reduced to rubble.
Nativity figurines in churches were placed among rubble and barbed wire in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
Images show a large hole in the bridge, revealing the water below, as well as rubble strewn across the road.
Most asteroids – including Dimorphos, as it turns out – are rubble piles tenuously held together by gravity.
Many took to social media to plead for assistance for loved ones believed to be trapped under the rubble.
A man walks through the rubble of destroyed buildings in Antakya, southern Turkey, on February 8, 2023.
Abu Muhammad, who spent about 24 hours trapped under the rubble, lies among other survivors on a ward.
Afghans congregate on a mound of rubble in the wake of the magnitude 6.3 earthquake that struck Herat.
A digger removes the rubble from the police station that was overrun by Hamas militants on Saturday.
Israelis inspect the rubble of a building a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Oct. 8, 2023.
He added that the real toll will only emerge once buildings are cleared and rubble is taken away.
Almost two weeks after the earthquake, three people were pulled from the rubble on Friday alive.
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×
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