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How to use wreckage in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Wreckage means something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed. Example: “The entrapment of the victims in the wreckage made rescue difficult.”

Examples of wreckage by meaning

nounSomething wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed.

  • About three or four minutes later still an express freight on the up main line ran into the wreckage at about 35 m.p.h.1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”, in Modern Railways, page 232
  • Explorers have found the 153-year-old wreckage of the Bay State, one the earlier propeller-driven steamships to ply the waters of the Great Lakes.2015 October 22, Michael Pearson, “153-year-old shipwreck found in Lake Ontario”, in CNN
  • The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43

More sentences with wreckage

  • The entrapment of the victims in the wreckage made rescue difficult.From the entry entrapment
  • The search was resultless. Not only were no bodies or wreckage recovered but no trace was ever found.From the entry resultless
  • The state police recovered a broken, jumbo (1.75-liter) bottle of vodka under the front seat of the burned-out wreckage of the minivan.From the entry front seat
  • It is the wreckage of a train that has been careening down the track for years.2020 April 3, Arundhati Roy, “The pandemic is a portal”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry careen
  • The wreck grab is brought to surface where recovered wreckage is lowered onto a barge.2016, Manhar R. Dhanak, Nikolas I. Xiros, Springer Handbook of Ocean Engineering, →ISBN, page 1062. From the entry wreck grab
  • The wreckage of an old wooden windmill fallen among the rocks.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry pickethouse
  • Broken lumps of cloud whirling across a knife-coloured sky like wreckage on a Thames flood.1967, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth, page 96. From the entry knife-coloured
  • Its engine also overturned and 15 more wagons were added to the mounting pile of wreckage.1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”, in Modern Railways, page 232. From the entry overturn
  • I visited the wreckage at Ladbroke Grove, Hatfield.2023 September 20, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: And it's goodbye from me...”, in RAIL, number 992, page 3. From the entry profound
  • Frank held his father’s hand through the wreckage, as the firemen tried to cut him out of the car.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry air ambulance
  • The laws of physics and chemistry transform a meadow of fine powder into a wreckage of icy chunks.2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry pinwheel
  • Ground scars and wreckage scatter indicated that the airplane crashed into the Everglades in a right wing down, nose down attitude.1997, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.1 History of Flight”, in Aircraft Accident Report: In-Flight Fire and Impact with Terrain…. From the entry impact crater
  • Tetiana Khlapova’s hand trembled as she recorded the wreckage of Odesa’s devastated Transfiguration Cathedral on her cellphone and cursed Russia, her native land.2023 July 25, Hanna Arhirova, Lori Hinnant, “Anger grows in Ukraine’s port city of Odesa after Russian bombardment hits beloved historic…. From the entry Tetiana
  • As Toronto slowly comes back to life after two years of repeated lockdowns and closures, the wreckage of the pandemic is surfacing like cigarette butts in melted snow drifts.2022 April 18, Catherine Porter, “A ‘Wild West’ of Marijuana Shops Grows in Toronto”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on…. From the entry Toronto
  • Flotsam is “floatsome,” cargo or wreckage found floating on the surface of the ocean or goods seen to float up from the hull of a wrecked ship.2010, Bill Casselman, Where a Dobdob Meets a Dikdik. From the entry floatsome
  • Though he can't deny that he deals mostly in the dirty laundry and tragic wreckage of once private lives, Colbert denies that he is a sleaze-merchant or ambulance chaser.1993, Ian Mitroff, Warren Bennis, The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What it is Doing to Our Lives…. From the entry sleaze-merchant
  • The wreckage of the combat aircraft was later found in Hsinfeng, Hsinchu County, and in Hsinwu, Taoyuan County, during a five-hour intensive search in northern Taiwan.1990 April 9 [1990 March 24], “Three F-104 Jet Fighters Crash in North”, in JPRS Report China, number 90-026, Foreign Broadcast…. From the entry Hsinwu
  • Near waterfront, a stone's throw from the slums It lifts, above its wreckage, three gold buoys Yet to its reefage tattoo'd flotsam comes Dropping their snared bags of exotic toys.1990, A. M. Klein, Zailig Pollock, Complete Poems - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 575. From the entry reefage

Meaning of wreckage

  1. noun Something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed.

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Questions about wreckage in a sentence

How do you use wreckage in a sentence?
Wreckage is used as a noun. For example: “The entrapment of the victims in the wreckage made rescue difficult.”
What is a short sentence with wreckage?
“I visited the wreckage at Ladbroke Grove, Hatfield.”
What does wreckage mean?
Wreckage means something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed.

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