Sentence examples for a rubble from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a rubble" is not correct in standard written English.
The word "rubble" is an uncountable noun, so it should not be preceded by the article "a."
Example: "After the earthquake, the city was left in a state of rubble."
Alternatives: "the rubble" or "rubble debris".

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A rubble mound jetty and a caisson jetty are considered as design alternatives for comparison.

Normally, he said, a rubble plan is developed within a month of a major disaster.

The ground underfoot was a rubble of granite boulders and chunks of sharp limestone karst.

"It is a rubble heap, a charnel house, a breeding ground of pestilence and hate".

Language is burnt back to a rubble of grunts and fillers: uh-uh, OK, yeah.

Huddled behind a rubble barricade, I felt as foolish and professionally humiliated as I felt frightened.

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A once-bustling neighborhood became a rubble-strewn urban prairie.

"It was a rubble-strewn lot, filled with cars, garbage".

Thomasius took the writer to a rubble-conversion plant near the Zoo, built in 1949.

The mining process changed the land from a lush island paradise to a rubble-strewn atoll.

Once a teeming suburb of 250,000 people, Darayya is now a rubble-strewn shell.

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