Synonym: debris, detritus, dust, junk. Similar words: bubble, stubble, rubber, rubbish, shrubbery, scrub brush, rubber eraser, gobble. Meaning: ['rʌbl] n. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up.
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31. Dozens of people were trapped in the rubble when the building collapsed.
32. As the aeroplane went down the runway the wing touched a pile of rubble.
33. A gang of workmen were shovelling rubble onto a truck.
34. Brick rubble is useful as the base for paths and patios.
35. After the landslide, volunteers worked in relays to rescue people buried under the rubble.
36. The fourteenth century cathedral was reduced to a mass of rubble.
37. We could hear the moans of someone trapped under the rubble.
38. The rescuers could hear the sound of the trapped people desperately trying to claw their way through the rubble.
39. The wall was built of rubble with a facing of stone.
40. All the buildings in the town have been reduced to rubble.
41. Fire-men were still clearing rubble from apartments damaged at the scene of the attack.
42. After the earthquake, it took months to clean up the rubble.
43. Games players cleared areas of sand or dusty rubble.
44. Here and there were traces of rubble and slag.
45. The rubble would make good drainage.
46. The ground was solid with rubble.
47. Suddenly, from behind, I heard the crunch of rubble.
48. As the full horror of the explosion unfolded, the Halifax building society was reduced to a mound of rubble.
49. The car jolted over the rubble past a machine, and the panic ceased.
50. But Tuesday afternoon rescue workers were still searching the rubble, cordoned off by dozens of uniformed soldiers and police.
51. The Grand Hotel was now just a mound of rubble.
52. Here the four powers had carved themselves out oddly shaped zones amongst the rubble and devastation left by the Allied bombing.
53. The rubble had temporarily blocked the entrance to the cavern below the Horseshoe Falls.
54. The inside of the hall was a mess of rubble and charred beams.
55. They were freed after 30 rescuers had clawed away rubble with bare hands in temperatures of 100F.
56. A case against the Clintons built on the McDougals and Hale would quickly turn to rubble.
57. The aim is to use the rubble in as accurate a way as possible,(Sentencedict.com ) avoiding recourse to modern materials.
58. For days Kartoffel stood below it as storms flashed across the vertiginous face of ice and rubble.
59. She walked through miles of deserted rubble and there wasn't a soul.
60. Pastures of fresh magma flows known as pillow lavas and the rubble of frequent earthquakes line the floor of this stone trough.