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• I poked about in the rubble, trying to find my lost keys.From the entry poke
• The asteroid belt consists of a collection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.From the entry collection
• The demolition team smashed the buildings to rubble.From the entry smash
• The masons used rubble from their trimming of the face rocks as some of the hearting for the wall.From the entry hearting
• Look: a heap of burnt huts, Ibrahim, openmouthed and lionhearted, leading his men across the rubbled field.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 155. From the entry rubbled
• She is elegant on sky-high heels in spite of the rubble and the cracks in the paving.2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 20. From the entry sky-high
• Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28. From the entry early
• First I see of the Wasters is when they berserk through the rubble.2011, John Trevillian, The A-Men Return, Matador, →ISBN, page 35. From the entry berserk
• Soon a spanky new house had arisen from the rubble of the old one.2011, Victoria Twead, Two Old Fools - Olé!, page 169. From the entry spanky
• Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble.2010 January 14, Simon Romero, “Haiti Lies in Ruins; Grim Search for Untold Dead”, in The New York Times. From the entry untold
• He seized a clawful of rubble and hurled it up the shaft.2010 [1973], Cormac McCarthy, Child of God, →ISBN, page 180. From the entry clawful
• Hescos — antiblast protection consisting of big wire containers of rubble — defy all attempts at decoration.2009 April 26, Rod Nordland, “Iraq’s False Spring”, in New York Times. From the entry antiblast
• Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome.1962, Myles Rudge, “Right Said Fred”. From the entry dome
• After each blast, rubble is taken out, and the excavated area is covered in a waterproof membrane and sprayed with shotcrete.2026 June 3, 17:57 from the start, in Norway is Building The World's Deepest Mega-Tunnel, spoken by Fred Mills, The B1M, via YouTube. From the entry shotcrete
• They were dug down one metre and backfilled with gravel or rubble stone to provide internal buttresses and deep drains.2021 April 7, “Network News: A long-standing problem: Victorian efforts to secure unstable slopes”, in RAIL, number 928, page 11. From the entry counterfort
• The landslide sent rubble sweeping over 34 homes in Zhangjiawan township in the city of Bijie, Guizhou province.2017 August 28, Philip Wen, “Mountain collapses on township in China's remote southwest, killing two”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters…. From the entry Bijie
• The remains of a Blondin, a cable lift once used to haul stone and rubble and spoil across the river.2016, Kellan Macinnes, “The Grave in the Woods”, in The Making of Mickey Bell, Dingwall, Highland: Sandstone Press, →ISBN, page 226. From the entry blondin
• She smoothed one hand over the rubbled texture.2014, Dana Stabenow, Everything under the Heavens, Portland, Ore.: Gere Donovan Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 64. From the entry Suchow
• Fighting back panic, she tried to keep her cool and find a way out from under the rubble.2009 June 4, Kevin Purdy, Lukas Alpert, “‘The Next Thing I Knew the Ceiling Was on Me’”, in New York Post, retrieved 03 Jun 2009. From the entry keep one's cool
• A bulldozer does its dirty work Tuesday lacing into the first of several Beach Street buildings that will be rendered rubble.1981 Feb. 25, "Courting Destruction" (photo caption), Daytona Beach Morning Journal, p. 1B (retrieved 24 July 2011). From the entry lace into
• They hamper progress over the black, volcanic rubble of the Aleutian Island beaches but are handy in sea sprint.1973, Jane H. Bailey, The sea otter's struggle, page 22. From the entry gardenhose
• However, with adobe brick, slumpstone, or rubble walls, heavier framing will give a better appearance for the roof structure.1967, Paul Corey, Holiday Homes, page 106. From the entry slumpstone
• Rubble and water rushed down the side of Mount Parker near Chai Wan, where roads and parking garages sat under standing water.2023 September 7, Meaghan Tobin, “Extreme rain in Hong Kong turns city streets into raging rivers”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Mount Parker
• A blind deer moved through the organic rubble that had been the woods of central Pennsylvania, pacing in crazed parabolas of misery and hunger.2013 June 13, James Morrow, This Is the Way the World Ends, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry deerie
• Here at Manam Gonpa, there is an enormous complex of ruins which even now holds untold precious works of art, buried beneath the rubble.[1996 January, “Far-west Tibet”, in Gyurme Dorje, editor, Tibet Handbook: with Bhutan, Passport Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 425…. From the entry Zanda
• The horse pounded surefooted along the tunnels, leaping sudden slides of rubble and adroitly sidestepping huge stones as they thundered down from the straining roof.1983, Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic, published 2022, page 140. From the entry adroitly
• He always missed the running figures in rubber suits by fifty feet, placing his .50 caliber machine gun bullets harmlessly in rubble and dust.1964, Explorations in Education, volumes 1-12, page 93. From the entry nerven
• Littlefinger’s execution and the white walkers passing through the rubble of the Wall are just two observations that this enormous Rube Goldberg machine is running on time.2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV…. From the entry Rube Goldberg machine
• Travelers in the antique land of the genre fable will find themselves confronted not perhaps by a wreck of Ozymandian proportions, but still with a sizable selection of rubble.2002, Niklas Holzberg, The Ancient Fable: An Introduction, page 1. From the entry Ozymandian
• Some of the infantry got pinned down by it, and from cover kept up the battle by grenading rubble piles or any other likely spots ahead of them.2001, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, Island Victory: The Battle of Kwajalein Atoll, page 43. From the entry grenade
• They soon pulled a 33-year-old man from inside a four-story chunk of building that had been compressed into 10 feet of rubble in the town of Touliu.1999 September 25, Dirk Beveridge, “Elite US Rescue Team Leaving Taiwan”, in AP News, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2022. From the entry Touliu
• The violence of the quake hurled people 2m (6ft) into the air, and within a matter of seconds 95 per cent of Tang-shan had collapsed into rubble.1998, Richard O'Neill, “Big Trouble in China”, in Natural Disasters, Parragon, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18, column 3. From the entry sink-hole
• The east side facade is of rubble, studded with small windows and mannered details, while the harled rear (south) wall forms, as completed, a towering, roughly symmetrical grouping.1996, Miles Glendinning, Ranald MacInnes, Aonghus MacKechnie, A History of Scottish Architecture, →ISBN, page 361. From the entry harl

Meaning of rubble

1. noun The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
2. noun A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
3. noun The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.

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How do you use rubble in a sentence?

Rubble is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I poked about in the rubble, trying to find my lost keys.”

What is a short sentence with rubble?

“She smoothed one hand over the rubbled texture.”

What does rubble mean?

Rubble means the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.