Wreckage

//ˈɹɛkɪdʒ//

"Wreckage" in a Sentence (14 examples)

The wreckage of the ship was salvaged after it had gone to Davy Jones's locker.

A flight attendant was rescued from the wreckage of the passenger plane.

The wreckage is scattered over a large area.

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The wreckage of the plane was found in the desert.

Tom and Mary were pinned under the wreckage.

There are fears that the plane disintegrated in mid-air and that the wreckage may never be found.

The wreckage of the plane is spread over three miles.

Many survivors were rescued from the wreckage.

A stewardess was saved from the wreckage.

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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. Its engine also overturned and 15 more wagons were added to the mounting pile of wreckage.

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.

Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. 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. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before.

More recent attempts to salvage general equilibrium theory from the Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu wreckage have met with little success[.]

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