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rubble

(= debris) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

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Simple sentences

Many survivors were rescued from the rubble of the collapsed building.
A baby was pulled alive from the rubble of the collapsed building.
An earthquake has rattled the cities to rubble.
Emergency services are still looking through the rubble for survivors.
An unknown number of victims may be trapped beneath the rubble.

Movie subtitles

Even under the rubble.
If we don't come to an agreement, Mr Helius, five minutes after my departure, your hangar, along with the nearly completed spaceship, will be reduced to a heap of rubble.
I piled up the rubble over him, more and more.
This is all I was able to rescue out of the rubble down in the cellar.
And destroy the best defended cities, burying everyone in the rubble.
If I am not back aboard the Lydia within one hour she'll train her guns upon your fort and reduce it to rubble.
With our sincere gaze we survey these ruins, as if the the old monster lay crushed forever beneath the rubble.
He would not have married me and I'd have been left to starve in the rubble.
And most damaging of all, the prosecution has produced a surprise witness, one Christine Helm, whom the prisoner brought from the rubble of her homeland to the safety of this country, giving her his love and the protection of his name.
Enjoy the sight for soon it will be rubble and bleached bones.
A BASEBALL DIAMOND, A HARDWARE STORE THE MAILBOX OF WHAT WAS ONCE HIS HOUSE AND IS NOW A RUBBLE.
HENRY BEMIS, NOW JUST A PART OF A SMASHED LANDSCAPE JUST A PIECE OF THE RUBBLE JUST A FRAGMENT OF WHAT MAN HAS DEEDED TO HIMSELF.
The eastern sector, under Communist domination. was still in rubble. but the people went about their daily business. parading.
That rubble.
That rubble heap over there was the American embassy.
You want him to stand on the blackened rubble of what used to be the corner of a street with a sample case of assorted freedoms, waving the flag and the Bill of Rights.
There's a lot of rubble.
Rubble of all kinds, vegetable, mineral and animal.
I felt sure that at last, finally. I was on the express road to the Lost Dutchman. and my grandfather's fabulous mine. where I'd find lumps of gold piled up like rubble.
Ibn Hussein cringes in the rubble of his realm. He begs our Sultan for mercy.
Those are your men--the labourers clearing rubble across the street?
Now, rubble.
THE MAILBOX OF WHAT WAS ONCE HIS HOUSE AND IS NOW A RUBBLE.
There's nothing there but rubble.
Excuse the rubble.
Nothing left but rubble and asteroids.
It destroys planets, chops them into rubble. What is it, an alien ship?
Its apparent function is to smash planets to rubble and then digest the debris for fuel.
It's sucking in space rubble from those destroyed planets, refuelling itself.
This area here is to be cleared of debris and rubble.
Clear up all this rubble!
Weapons that will destroy the strongest building to rubble!

News and current affairs

In writing to Merkel, he is addressing the leader of a country decimated by Nazi rule - millions dead, an entire society and economy reduced to rubble.
Yet beneath Iraq's chaos and the rubble, a rough and tumble private sector has been expanding since the US invasion, benefiting from higher oil revenues and more liberal economic policies.
But today, the army's jihad philosophy lies buried under the rubble of the World Trade Center.
Scratch around the rubble, however, and one can come up with useful fragments.
We saw buildings - not just the former Hamas headquarters - still in rubble.
But these crimes fall short by an order of magnitude of the great service to humanity - and especially to western European humanity - that they gave in the rubble along the Volga River 70 years ago this fall.
There is rubble and the gut-wrenching smell of decaying corpses.
If there is a plan to clear the concrete rubble in and around the town, nobody seems to have any clue.
Some even lost the land they had lived upon for generations - the top soil simply slid away, leaving behind hard rock and rubble.
Much of Western Europe was rubble.
Much architecture has been turned into rubble.
The rebels, who reduced Qaddafi's birthplace to rubble, were in some cases as ruthlessly brutal as the men against whom they were fighting.
In post-communist Europe, banks had to be built from scratch out of the rubble of socialism.
But few people dared ask tough questions when confidence picked up again, as when a housing bubble was inflated on the rubble of collapsed technology stocks.
In 1995, Kobe citizens extricated from the rubble were looked after if they belonged to corporations or religious groups.
Moreover, the government provided strong leadership and official agencies responded rapidly, ensuring, among other things, a rapid cleanup of the rubble.
Indeed, aside from fiscal issues, disposal of rubble is the greatest obstacle preventing reconstruction after natural disasters everywhere.
The rubble produced in the Great Hanshin Earthquake was equivalent to the amount that Japan normally processes in roughly eight years.
Rubble is equivalent to 11 years of waste in Iwate prefecture, and 19 years of waste in Miyagi prefecture - enormous volumes that exceed these regions' disposal capacity.
Fear of radioactive contamination has stoked strong opposition from residents in areas that would need to accept rubble - even when the rubble is from areas nowhere near Fukushima.
The heads of local governments in various regions are attempting to convince residents not to fear radiation and to allow for dispersal of rubble.
Thailand, which earlier this year suffered prolonged flooding, is also facing the need to dispose of rubble as it works to rebuild.
Measures to prevent flooding and steps to repair damaged areas of Bangkok cannot even begin until the rubble is cleared.
The disposal of rubble, given its labor-intensive character, has a particularly marked effect on job creation, at least in the short term.
On the rubble of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, the Americans helped create in Iraq the first Shia-dominated Arab state, which may well become subservient to Iran's regional ambitions - a calamity of historic dimensions for America's Sunni allies.
Europe rose from the rubble of World War II because of the vision of statesmen; now it has been brought to the verge of collapse by the everyday vanities, corruption, and cynicism of bankers and politicians.
The US could bomb Vietnam's cities to rubble, as it can Iraq's cities, but this solves nothing, claims vast numbers of innocent lives, and confirms the view of Americans as occupiers.
Haiti 's infrastructure was meager before the earthquake (hence the shocking mortality rate), and most of that is now rubble.
There is rubble and the gut-wrenching smell of decaying corpses. The rats have it good; the one I accidentally stepped upon was already fat.

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