Examples of wreckage in a Sentence
Workers sifted through the wreckage of the building, searching for bodies.
They cleared the wreckage from the track.
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The appointment of a new interim chancellor should be accompanied by broad authority to clear out the wreckage.
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Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2026
Photos from the wreckage show, among other pages from the emergency manual, instructions for a water landing lying loose at the crash site.
—James Glanz, New York Times, 1 May 2026
One option is the wreckage of the second Death Star.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2026
From then on, the storytelling goes slack and perfunctory as sharks swarm and chomp on passengers and crew clinging for dear lives on rafts or slabs of plane wreckage.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026
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Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2026
Photos from the wreckage show, among other pages from the emergency manual, instructions for a water landing lying loose at the crash site.
—James Glanz, New York Times, 1 May 2026
One option is the wreckage of the second Death Star.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2026
From then on, the storytelling goes slack and perfunctory as sharks swarm and chomp on passengers and crew clinging for dear lives on rafts or slabs of plane wreckage.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026
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“Wreckage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wreckage. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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wreckage
noun
wreck·age
ˈrek-ij 
1
a
: the act of wrecking
b
: the state of being wrecked
2
: the remains of a wreck
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