WRECKAGE in a Sentence
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21 example sentences for WRECKAGE, such as:
1. We will now try to reassemble pieces of the wreckage.
2. Firemen managed to pull some survivors from the wreckage.
3. They had to amputate his foot to free him from the wreckage.
4. Accident investigators will examine the wreckage of the plane.
5. You said you were like a shipwrecked man clinging to some wreckage.
2. Firemen managed to pull some survivors from the wreckage.
3. They had to amputate his foot to free him from the wreckage.
4. Accident investigators will examine the wreckage of the plane.
5. You said you were like a shipwrecked man clinging to some wreckage.
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Meanings and Examples of WRECKAGE
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wreckage
n. the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked
Classic Sentence:
1 Look at me now--I am a shipwrecked man clinging to a bit of wreckage.
2 You said you were like a shipwrecked man clinging to some wreckage.
3 Two on the same piece of wreckage would stand a better chance than each on their own.
4 The old lawyer was battling valiantly to save the house and the one piece of downtown property where the warehouse had been, so Wade and Scarlett would have something left from the wreckage.
5 She laid both hands on Gerty's shoulders, with a smile that was like sunrise on a sea strewn with wreckage.
6 I saw your vessel, and fearful of being left to perish on the desolate island, I swam off on a piece of wreckage to try and intercept your course.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
7 All life would be choked off, noiselessly: birds, men, elephants, pigs, children: noiselessly floating corpses amid the litter of the wreckage of the world.
8 There was the inevitable tendency of war to underestimate the prejudices of the master and the ignorance of the slave, and all seemed clear sailing out of the wreckage of the storm.
Example Sentence:
1 Investigators are searching the wreckage of the plane to try to find the cause of the tragedy.
2 We will now try to reassemble pieces of the wreckage.
3 Accident investigators will examine the wreckage of the plane.
4 They had to amputate his foot to free him from the wreckage.
5 Investigators will take samples of the wreckage to identify the cause.
6 Firemen managed to pull some survivors from the wreckage.
7 Firefighters took two hours to release the driver from the wreckage.
8 Three people died as wreckage blazed, and rescuers fought to release trapped drivers.
9 Crash investigators have been sifting through the wreckage of the aircraft.
10 Investigator is searching the wreckage of the plane to try and find the cause of the tragedy.
11 The policemen have to search such a large area and then document each piece of wreckage and guard it from souvenir hunters.
12 Perhaps they had time to clear the road of the accident and all the wreckage is gone.
13 All the rescuers found in the mountains of Venezuela was the scattered wreckage of the plane and the charred corpse of its occupant.