rubble
IPA: rˈʌbʌɫ
noun
- The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
- (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
- (UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc..
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Examples of "rubble" in Sentences
- He finds the trapped cops in the rubble.
- Thousands of bodies remain in the rubble.
- Rubble remained in the streets until the 1950s.
- The UK was a pile of rubble in the mid forties.
- Amidst the flames and rubble, the storming began.
- The Syrian munition pieces found in the rubble belong.
- The northern portal of the tunnel is blocked with rubble.
- Most of the cave was filled with valueless limestone rubble.
- The bombings virtually reduced the city to a pile of rubble.
- The only remaining portion of the building is a pile of rubble.