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How To Use rubble In A Sentence

• Some houses were reduced to neat rectangles of foot-high rubble.
• They have been tearing away at the rubble for a week now, and more than 10,000 tonnes has been removed, But it has hardly made a dent in the mountain.
• Photos Simon Baker/Reuters A woman, whose friend was missing in the fire-damaged CTV building looked on as firemen and search teams looked through the rubble for survivors in central Christchurch Wednesday. New Zealand Starts Christchurch Curfew
• One section of the factory's main exterior wall had already collapsed, leaving a pile of smouldering rubble. Times, Sunday Times
• A mark of the confusion attending the rescue operation came when it was widely reported that five firefighters, trapped for two days in the rubble, had been freed from their concrete tomb.
• To the east the cordillera was scorched and spent, rubbled by decades of desperate agriculture.
• It was originally built of brick and rubblework, but since the restoration in the seventeenth century it has lost its primitive character. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
• Feeling utterly stupid I gathered myself up from under the rubble and hobbled inelegantly to find a first aider.
• Three times I can remember it: the ending tunnel silhouette in "The Third Man," falling rubble jarringly breaking up a scene (by splicing the foreground and midground) in of all things "Duck Soup," and noticing a borrowed composition from "La Dolce Vida" (namely, a long shot where multiple people were running and the camera followed them) showing up in "Little Miss Sunshine. Reverse Storyboarding
• Amid the rationing and the rubble of bombed buildings, there was hope for the future and television was part of it.