How To Use Wreckage In A Sentence

He stared in dumb misery at the wreckage of the car.
The mangled wreckage of the stricken craft was such that rescue teams had not found him. The Sun
Or, the lift wreckage would become mangled inside the tubing, preventing any further use of that tube.
The Democratic political calculation with ObamaCare is the proverbial boiling frog: Gradually introduce a health-care entitlement by hiding the true costs, hook the middle class on new subsidies until they become unrepealable, but try to delay the adverse consequences and major new tax hikes so voters don't make the connection between their policy and the economic wreckage. The ObamaCare Writedowns
Investigators are still studying the home's wreckage to find the cause of a gas leak which ignited when central heating was turned on. The Sun

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For three weeks a big operation went on to recover the wreckage from the sea bed.
For me, therefore, Meursault is not a piece of social wreckage, but a poor and naked man enamored of a sun that leaves no shadows. Classics of Confusion
Hundreds of civilians helped in the search, using hacksaws to cut away metal sheeting trapping survivors and ropes to pull bodies from the wreckage, witnesses said.
Smoke billowed from the wreckage of the white car, and ambulances rushed to the scene.
But what really catches our eyes is the airplane wreckage higher up on the hill.
Pictures showed smears of blood, a body outside the building and smouldering wreckage on an upper floor. Times, Sunday Times
Like I have said I have a letter from major marcels son who saw the wreckage and in this letter he says "the wreckage was nothing like a weather balloon" it was as thin as tin foil yet you could not bend it or break it, let alone eve scratch its surface! The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - UFO Section 4
Walking was like picking his way through the wreckage of his own lite. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
When an investigator arrives at the scene of an accident there is a single golden rule: secure the wreckage.
There was a considerable amount of wreckage on the surface and a life-jacket with the boat's name stencilled on it told them the worst. CONFESSIONAL
Getting back to the task at hand, he scooped visible wreckage away, wary of the glass shards and smiled in triumph as he spotted his quarry.
A mountain rescue mission yesterday took off for Iceland to recover wreckage from a bomber plane which entombed four men in ice for more than 60 years.
The British team found no survivors yesterday - only a body in the wreckage of an office building. The Sun
England have good news and wreckage to sift in almost equal measure. Times, Sunday Times
Some wreckage which couldn't be identified was spotted in the vicinity, after the co-ordinates they'd been given the evening before had been reached and gridded.
It was just a sort of blackened, charred wreckage, smoke rising and emergency services all over the place.
The wreckage was found after a tipoff from a hill walker. The Sun
The wreckage was found after a tipoff from a hill walker. The Sun
Public life in America is strewn with wreckage from the reputations of figures sabotaged by their own lies. Fallout from resume lies can be brutal Padding resumes has brought down many figures
He lashed together two life rafts from the wreckage and helped them aboard. Times, Sunday Times
If, however, you want to see more wreckage, then from the cave return to the stern of the Mohegan and follow a compass bearing to the south-west until the depth is just less than 18m.
He said a dredge is being used to bring up wreckage submerged under 11m of water.
Plane wreckage tumbles on to the stage. Times, Sunday Times
My word, some whale," Daughtry said to Ah Moy, as they emerged from the cabin companionway and gazed at this latest wreckage. CHAPTER XV
Some of the wreckage caused by the explosion fell amid the crowd of spectators.
Crash investigators have been sifting through the wreckage of the aircraft.
Because the runway was littered with wreckage, the patient's plane was forced to land in a field.
Dutch citizens returned to their homes in Arnhem the next year, they recovered remains from the Skytrain's wreckage and buried them in Remains Returned List WWII
The wreckage of the vessel was found last week on the seabed over 130 feet below the waves.
Traces of explosives found among the wreckage were the key to the puzzle.
Witnesses said the wreckage of a Mercedes car lay in the road, its glass shattered.
Firemen managed to pull some survivors from the wreckage.
A search is going on for wreckage from the blazing aircraft.
D-San Jose, will have better luck banning "alcopop" in California than funding programs aimed at cleaning up some of the wreckage induced by alcohol, caffeine-spiked or not. SFGate: Top News Stories
The mangled wreckage of the stricken craft was such that rescue teams had not found him. The Sun
Unless one has excellent DNA or as many of my rich cousins do, excellent plastic surgeons, dealing with wreckage of our bodies is a slow gradual process. My Body, No Wonderland | Her Bad Mother
The sailors and coxswain running the whaleboat pushed off again to help the others towing away the wreckage.
As local residents and officials sifted through the wreckage there were conflicting reports about the precise number of dead and wounded. Times, Sunday Times
The badly burned bodies were recovered from the wreckage but only one was identified. Times, Sunday Times
As we sifted through the wreckage, I came across the charred but legible number plate - it was Polish!
He surveyed the wreckage of his expensive equipment.
A bugle and drum struck up, their rousing sounds sharply misplaced, and we marched across the wreckage of the walls. ANTI-ICE
Meanwhile gale force winds and heavy rain yesterday halted the search for wreckage in the vast sea. The Sun
It was just a sort of blackened, charred wreckage, smoke rising and emergency services all over the place.
Investigators are searching the wreckage of the plane to try to find the cause of the tragedy.
Against the starry backdrop about a dozen or so tiny, cone-like dots appeared, and buzzed around the wreckage.
Investigators are still studying the home's wreckage to find the cause of a gas leak which ignited when central heating was turned on. The Sun
The Venezuelan coastguard widened its search yesterday after failing to find any wreckage. Times, Sunday Times
Splinters and jagged spikes of wood lanced into the air, and a faint coat of dust had comfortably settled over the wreckage.
Mark was dragged from the burning wreckage of his car.
Three bodies were pulled out of the twisted wreckage of the hotel.
Heavy jungle growth protected the wreckage from the elements. Remains Returned List WWII
The inquest heard that after he was freed from the wreckage by firefighters he was airlifted to the Royal United Hospital in Bath but died soon after arrival.
A bugle and drum struck up, their rousing sounds sharply misplaced, and we marched across the wreckage of the walls. ANTI-ICE
The novice wreck diver will not be spooked, as no torch is required inside much of this wreckage.
Shocking pictures showed the charred and mangled wreckage wrapped around a tree. The Sun
She saw, too vividly, the blackened swathe cut through the trees, the burned wreckage. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
The crash left wreckage spread over a wide area.
The wreckage, when I saw them the next morning to collect the keys of the embassy in order to retrieve documents and other things for safe keeping, was indescribable, as it was indeed for the whole of that half of the city.
In the morning my father drove us slowly past the still smouldering wreckage. Times, Sunday Times
Investigators are still studying the home's wreckage to find the cause of a gas leak which ignited when central heating was turned on. The Sun
You can well imagine the reports from Normandy: the reporter would have his back to the sea so the camera caught the wreckage, the metal flotsam, the blasted craft and bobbing bodies.
The machine, with its human freight, lifted in an upburst of smoke, and sank down a mass of wreckage and death. Chapter 22: The Chicago Commune
But nothing of the kind was visible, and the spars, masts, and other wreckage which had reached the rocks had been shattered into "matchwood" by frequent gales. The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
A deep-sea camera has been used to examine the wreckage ahead of a planned salvage operation. The Sun
Rescue workers were on the scene in the Alpine town of Bramberg working to free eight people trapped in the wreckage.
The Venezuelan coastguard widened its search yesterday after failing to find any wreckage. Times, Sunday Times
Military personnel found the front bumper and were attempting to dig out the wreckage from the landslide. Taiwan Rescue Workers Find Bus Missing in Mudslide
Forensic scientists are examining the wreckage for clues about the cause of the explosion.
A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage.
They will be often be observed eating mussels from both reef and wreckage and also seem to favour winkles, which they pick delicately from kelp fronds before spitting out the remains of the shell.
The wreckage from the past is exactly what I am looking for," I tell him. In search of Errol Flynn's Jamaica
The charred wreckage of the car was embedded in a concrete wall. Times, Sunday Times
Bodies and charred wreckage were scattered over a huge expanse of sugar cane fields around the landing site. The Sun
Wreckage from the plane was scattered over a wide area.
Make sure that you park in a safe place off the road and that, as you approach the scene, you will not be hit by another vehicle and that the wreckage itself will not be hit.
The mangled wreckage of the stricken craft was such that rescue teams had not found him. The Sun
It always pays to fully explore well away from the wreck and to mark on the plotter any significant markings of loose wreckage.
In seconds, the whole wreckage was engulfed in raging flames and happiness had turned to horror.
Television footage showed the tail of the twin - engined propeller plane visible amid the burning wreckage.
I provide a lovely graphical presentation of this wildly malfeasant, destructive nose-dive into federal budget red ink in Part 4 of my series, "The Economics of Wreckage," which stands to this day and ever after as but one piece of my record of correctly predicting what was to come of the GOP's incomprehensibly bad economic policies. A Paleo-Conservative Message to Republicans
By the time Bugs Bunny picks his way through the smoking wreckage to have the last word in your shell-like, the dizzying accretion of events has pulled you through so many emotional states you might not even know what day it is.
A second moment they devoted to the wreckage of the same on deck -- the mizzen-topmast, thrust through the spanker and supported vertically by the stout canvas, thrashing back and forth with each thrash of the sail, the main - topmast squarely across the ruined companionway to the steerage. CHAPTER XV
For three weeks a big operation went on to recover the wreckage from the sea bed.
If true, this could persuade the EU to pay for a Hungarian operation to lift the wreckage - and possibly for a high-level bridge to replace the Novi Sad pontoon.
Some vessels were so badly damaged that their wreckage became hard to identify.
Staying on the south-west side of the gully, the wreckage begins to thin out near a pair of bollards at a depth of 18m.
They lay faceup in a long line, obviously dragged out of the wreckage by the soldiers in brown uniforms. The Omega Theory
The shattered remnants of other vessels dotted the walls and floor of the tunnel, but she figured the gunrunners had scavenged the majority of the wreckage.
What appeared to be wreckage from the car was stuck in a water fountain and in trees.
The left and right outboard wing sections were lodged in trees 20 feet northeast of the main wreckage.
It took 50 minutes to cut him from the wreckage of his car and most of the night for the feeling to return to his limbs. The Sun
Which brings us to one of the main problems with second acts: New selves don't just spring fully fledged from the wreckage of old lives. Why is Eliot Spitzer on TV? Because disgrace doesn't stick like it used to.
Rescuers cut through mangled wreckage to reach survivors. The Sun
The Whydah Sea Lab and Learning Center (whydah. com) houses treasures recovered by explorer Barry Clifford from the wreckage of Capt. Yar, Mate! Swashbuckler Tours!
Anton stood in the coalyard of Lord Sisk's home, sadly surveying the wreckage of the Professor's balloon, stretched out on the cobblestones like the cast-off skin of some giant red snake. The first sentence I wrote today was...
Then he had the so-called "bullhorn" moment while touring the wreckage at Ground Zero was praised for capturing the leadership and resolve of what first responders needed to hear. FOXNews.com
You'll probably hear a lot about how Beck coarsened the political debate and how his words may or may not have incited violence, but I think the wreckage is a lot more substantive, to actual policies that affect Americans every day. Will Bunch: It May Take 27 Years to Undo the Damage Glenn Beck Caused in 27 Months
Wreckage from the plane was scattered over a wide area.
The cutter and pouch are made from 220-year-old reindeer leather recovered from the wreckage of the Danish ship Frau Metta Catharina von Flensburg, which was protected by black mud. Where There’s Smoke…
Emergency workers cut open the train's roof to get to dozens trapped in the mangled wreckage. The Sun
But reports that his body had been identified in the wreckage proved to be wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
The black and twisted wreckage of at least a dozen vehicles lies in the bus station.
The train was shunted onto a siding and wreckage was strewn along 200 yards of track.
Investigators are searching the wreckage of the plane to try and find the cause of the tragedy.
Wreckage was strewn over a wide area and that, combined with the thick fog, made the task exceptionally difficult.
The ambulance crew removed him from the wreckage.
Navy Island covers about 65 acres and there are two beaches, but there is nothing there except the wreckage from the past," says Dale Weston, manager of the Errol Flynn marina. In search of Errol Flynn's Jamaica
After serial numbers were recovered from the wreckage of the planes it was determined that none of the 5 planes were from flight 19, but were planes from separate flights that crashed on separate dates, coincidently no more than a mile and half apart. A New Book
Police are searching the wreckage for clues to the cause of the accident.
Some of the merchants were drowned and others made shift to reach the shore and save themselves upon the mountain; I amongst the number, and when we got ashore, we found a great island, or rather peninsula72 whose base was strewn with wreckage of crafts and goods and gear cast up by the sea from broken ships whose passengers had been drowned; and the quantity confounded compt and calculation. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Six people remained trapped in the wreckage after the crash and it took almost five hours to free them all.
If you follow the approximate centre line of the ship you will soon come to the remains of the engine, about half of which projects above the general level of the wreckage.
As for the miserable piece of zoologically human wreckage who dares take in vain the name of a creature (my mother) who is as far above it as angels are above slime, well, creature, does it feel good to imitate human beings? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
They were visited upon a collection of emptied maritime foundations, the flat and unornamented exteriors of abandoned concrete and stucco-surfaced buildings and the wreckage of burned-out cars along a highway.
Television footage showed the tail of the twin - engined propeller plane visible amid the burning wreckage.
The Estrella was a pitiful sight, the more pitiful as they approached her, and could see more clearly the raffle of wreckage dangling forward, and the rudder torn loose aft. Hornblower In The West Indies
Usually the delivered energy is so high—in the 5,000-foot-pound range—that a frail sack of blood and struts like a human being will flip through the air, sometimes as far as 30 feet, limbs askew, and land in a pile of wreckage. Dead Zero
I don't think anyone would start a dive in such a condition, but catching your suit on a sharp piece of wreckage is not uncommon.
The motorway was closed as rescuers battled to free casualties from the twisted wreckage of the coach.
They split into two groups, a pincer movement round the burning wreckage. SKORPION'S DEATH
The gullies are littered with wreckage from vessels that have had their bellies ripped out by the pinnacle tops.
Wreckage has been sighted fifteen miles north of the island.
So she decided to try to salvage something from the wreckage of her relationship. Times, Sunday Times
New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.
Half a block down, flare lamps illuminate the rescue work in the charry wet wreckage. Gravity's Rainbow
A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage.
You wondered how it seemed to the 20-year-old as he surveyed the wreckage of a second consecutive bad defeat for his team. Times, Sunday Times
Heather and see if there is anything to be salvaged from the spiritual wreckage around him. Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian: Book summary
Three people died as wreckage blazed, and rescuers fought to release trapped drivers.
A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage.
Flames belch from the wreckage, degenerate human beings scrabble for survival, the screen is dark and the aspect brooding.
The wreckage is also likely to be examined to see if there was any mechanical failure with a particular focus on brakes and wheels.
While some pulled survivors from the wreckage, a handful took the chance to loot or steal valuables from the dead. Times, Sunday Times
We watched in horror as they pulled the bodies from the wreckage.
Investigators are searching the wreckage of the plane to try and find the cause of the tragedy.
For the handful of accountancy firms given the job of salvaging something from the wreckage, insolvency work is big business. Times, Sunday Times
I tried to study up on this aircraft, obviously an older one, so that when we got to the site we could more easily find remains via the wreckage.
Doctors and medics treated victims at the scene as other rescue workers cut trapped passengers from the wreckage.
Her bare feet were lacerated as she dug through the wreckage.
I sincerely hope you'll write a new post soon - even if it's only to say "well, I've re-examined the evidence of steel melting, explosive "squibs", free fall, Pentagon hole too small to be a jetliner, no wreckage at the Pentagon... and I'm doing so without prejudice". "You may rest assured that I, and hundreds of supporters, will continue to contact you, by email, phone, and perhaps in-person requests...."
Parts of the downed F-117 wreckage –such as the left wing with US Air Force insignia, the cockpit canopy, ejection seat, pilot's helmet and radio –are exhibited at Belgrade's aviation museum.
Their grim task is given urgency by the knowledge that some 250 firefighters and police officers are entombed in the wreckage.
The remains of an explosive device were found among the wreckage.
Thousands of birds such as egrets and brown pelicans are nesting on barrier islands close to the rig's wreckage right now. PhillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed
The foundation for this opinion is the fact that some days ago a mass of wreckage, such as maintop-sails, rigging, masts, etc., was found in the place where the Hollanders have been. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
A number of motorists mounted rescue bids to free people trapped in the wreckage of the crashed cars.
It's business as usual at the factory, even while investigators sift through the bomb wreckage.
Whipped by heavy rain, hundreds of police, military and civilian workers used shovels and electric torches to comb through the smoking wreckage.
The dissidents need only look over their shoulders at the ramshackle wreckage of the last splintered, squabbling Government. The Sun
Some wreckage from the ship was recovered, it was properly decided that the presumptive heir to the baronetcy was lost at sea, and would not be returning.
Shocking pictures showed the charred and mangled wreckage wrapped around a tree. The Sun
Investigators were sifting through the wreckage to establish why the driver had lost control. The Sun
Crash investigators have been sifting through the wreckage of the aircraft.
Fire crews worked with paramedics to cut the two men from the mangled wreckage of the car.
You and the others who prefer to preach in understated, refined language may look down your noses at me from the Mountain of the Better People; but I caution you: as surely as the economics of wreckage shatters the land of the common people who want for warning, so too does it lay low those who thought it best to call softly and with refined dignity from their higher place. Your Right Hand Thief
Thanks to excellent work by the Genesis Project Team, functioning as an initial response team, the wreckage of the SRC and its contents of scientific samples were recovered from the dry lakebed.
Last December, at a black-tie gala in New York's Plaza Hotel, Bank of America Corp. CEO Kenneth Lewis told a crowd of bankers to expect a humbler industry to emerge from the wreckage.
Wreckage of the aircraft was scattered over a wide area.
Swimming forward of the bridge, the wreckage resembles that of the stern decks, except that the anchor machinery and forward masts have fallen to the seabed.
The Earth is in wreckage, a family's dog drags itself home to die alone (a scene guaranteed to bring a tear to the eye of just about anyone, especially pet owners), and after disposing of the corpse, the house itself malfunctions and is destroyed. MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 2 of 2)
Except for some rescue workers who were overexposed to fumes and dust from the wreckage, that assurance seems to have been correct.
Firefighters took two hours to release the driver from the wreckage.
He showed photographs of captured Angolan government weapons and of himself sitting astride the wreckage of a crashed Russian military aircraft.
Navy salvage experts used sonar to help locate the area of submerged wreckage.
In 1918 when the ship Makambo ran aground, hundreds of rats rode onto the beach with the wreckage.
The police and the fire departments rushed to the scene but they could not find any helicopter wreckage.
You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember.
Smoke was seen rising from the wreckage of the Black Hawk helicopter, and other US choppers were seen hovering nearby.
Nine cars and a van collided, spilling wreckage across all three lanes of the motorway.
The wreckage of the gutted building continued to burn throughout yesterday and fire bosses warned the flames could burn all week. The Sun
A spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board said the agency's investigation would include an inquiry into the role of "telescoping," in which a train plows into another, climbs atop its roof and collapses into itself like a retracting telescope, which appears to be what happened Monday, based on the wreckage. Washington Metro Crash Kills Six
He lashed together two life rafts from the wreckage and helped them aboard. Times, Sunday Times
The gullies are littered with wreckage from vessels that have had their bellies ripped out by the pinnacle tops.
Sonar was used to locate the submerged plane wreckage.
Following the crash the airliner's emergency radio beacon failed to function and rescue teams experienced difficulties locating the wreckage.
The car was catapulted into the air and the mangled wreckage came down in long grass at the side of the track.
With the bound of a cat he landed in the middle of the floatage, dived under the logs, rose on the boiling surf, worked himself clear of the inshore wreckage, and struck out in the direction of the man clinging to the shattered mast, and who was now nearing the beach, whirled on by the inrushing seas. Tides of Barnegat
A beach, in the popular mythology, was a place of dissolution and wreckage and danger, a place only for the desperate and the scavanging poor.
The population peaked at about one hundred thousand in 1924 then crashed, leaving a wreckage not only of animal life but of horribly overbrowsed rangeland as well.
Forensic scientists are examining the wreckage for clues about the cause of the explosion.
Mountain rescue teams battled through white-out conditions to find the wreckage near the summit of the Highland mountain, the second highest in the UK.
Sprigs of table coral have become established on the wreckage, some now a respectable size.
Once he declared the aircraft safe, I completed a final reconnoitre of the site to 50m out from the wreckage.
Now the region was strewn with floating wreckage, the sort of flotsam that cried out to any Sentient that battle had raged across the Void a scant time previous.
Accident investigators will examine the wreckage of the plane.
Last night Chinese officials published images of what they said may be three pieces of plane wreckage. The Sun
Investigators are searching the wreckage of the plane to try to find the cause of the tragedy.
Once he declared the aircraft safe, I completed a final reconnoitre of the site to 50m out from the wreckage.
He continues to sit in the wreckage of the camp, however, lamenting the deaths of his friends and wondering what he can possibly do next.
Because the bodies of the men that died in the mission were buried in Norway, the site is not treated as a war grave and recovery of the wreckage can proceed unhindered.
Yesterday the hospital was shut down as investigators examined the wreckage. Times, Sunday Times
But reports that his body had been identified in the wreckage proved to be wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
Kate gets a disproportionate amount of wreckage to build her shelter.
Air ambulance medics and firefighters sifted through the wreckage for bodies. The Sun

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