How to Use wreckage in a Sentence

wreckage

noun
  • They cleared the wreckage from the track.
  • Workers sifted through the wreckage of the building, searching for bodies.
  • In the meantime, the Nets are left with the wreckage of what could have been.
    — Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The main wreckage came to a rest at the bottom of a steep slope.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The lifeboat that was pulled down was still tethered to the wreckage.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 1 Mar. 2023
  • This is a pear tree that was found alive in the wreckage of the towers.
    — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Some of the rescuers leave toys pulled from the wreckage.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
  • After about six-and-a-half hours, the girls were freed from the wreckage.
    — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The names of the two people found dead in the wreckage of the home has not yet been released.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 13 May 2025
  • In the yard, a group of teachers surveyed the wreckage.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
  • Not all of this wreckage can be laid at the feet of the Sacklers, but a lot of it can.
    — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Crawling out from the wreckage of what was once a home.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2021
  • In the dark below, a great white shark hunts in the wreckage and is drawn to the smell of fresh blood in the water.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2023
  • At the center of the wreckage removal is a massive decades-old crane – the largest on the East Coast.
    — Kathryn Fink, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Its wreckage was found on the ocean floor about 330 yards off the bow of the Titanic.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 13 June 2025
  • The battle now will be for what the White House and Democrats can salvage from the wreckage.
    — Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly and Kaitlan Collins, CNN, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Parts of the wreckage washed ashore and were recovered.
    — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The wreckage in Odessa was far worse than in Moscow or Crimea.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • He was pulled from the wreckage by witness Nathaniel Jahn.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The cleanup of the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge is underway.
    — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
  • That’s good news for investors who can sort through the wreckage to find the few SPACs that are poised to grow.
    — Peter Cohan, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • Saling picked up a piece of the wreckage, clutched it to her chest, and began to cry.
    — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The video then cuts to fighters standing around what appears to be the wreckage of the jet.
    — Tim Lister, Jennifer Hauser and Nimi Princewell, CNN, 3 Apr. 2021
  • But how the body repairs this kind of wreckage has been a source of mystery.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • An image posted by the city showed what appeared to be the wreckage of one of the planes.
    — Joe Studley, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2022
  • What, then, can Democrats salvage from the wreckage of the Biden agenda?
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Titan wreckage was found on the ocean floor about 550 yards from the bow of the Titanic.
    — oregonlive, 6 July 2023
  • First responders remained on the scene through the night to clear the wreckage.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 16 July 2022
  • Trapped inside the burning wreckage, both men were declared dead at the scene.
    — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 4 July 2025
  • From the street, the brick building looks like another piece of wreckage from the city’s manufacturing past.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025

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