Examples of wreckage in a Sentence
Workers sifted through the wreckage of the building, searching for bodies.
They cleared the wreckage from the track.
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The collapse of the communist regime had left behind unimaginable wreckage: the economy was dead, corruption was everywhere, people's spirits had been utterly crushed.
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Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
The oldest survivor of Flight 212, Mihalek was 46 at the time of the crash and helped pull co-pilot Jim Daniels away from the wreckage.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 27 Apr. 2025
Working alongside him is Thia, played by Elle Fanning, who fans speculate is a Weyland-Yutani android owing to a vague logo spotted in the the wreckage of a ship.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
Images from the scene show search crews scouring the river and pulling wreckage from the water.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
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Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
The oldest survivor of Flight 212, Mihalek was 46 at the time of the crash and helped pull co-pilot Jim Daniels away from the wreckage.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 27 Apr. 2025
Working alongside him is Thia, played by Elle Fanning, who fans speculate is a Weyland-Yutani android owing to a vague logo spotted in the the wreckage of a ship.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
Images from the scene show search crews scouring the river and pulling wreckage from the water.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
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“Wreckage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wreckage. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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wreckage
noun
wreck·age
ˈrek-ij 
1
a
: the act of wrecking
b
: the state of being wrecked
2
: the remains of a wreck
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