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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Is the issue about the size of the impact U.S. policy makes, or the size of the wreckage left behind which might eventually bite us or our grandchildren?
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Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
After that came a crash, a fire and a death-defying crawl out of molten airplane wreckage.
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The wreckage was first spotted by a schoolboy in Feb. 2024.
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Photos of the wreckage also showed container boxes that had exploded.
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Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
After that came a crash, a fire and a death-defying crawl out of molten airplane wreckage.
—Kayla Grant, People.com, 30 July 2025
The wreckage was first spotted by a schoolboy in Feb. 2024.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2025
Photos of the wreckage also showed container boxes that had exploded.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2025
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“Wreckage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wreckage. Accessed 7 Aug. 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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