Sentence examples for at rubble from inspiring English sources

In Zeitoun, families clawed at rubble and concrete, trying to dislodge the bodies of relatives who had died weeks before.

After a chaotic 72 hours, tens of thousands of Indians, supported but never supplanted by foreign rescue teams, have hammered and clawed at rubble, pulling out survivors.

Some 130,000 military and relief workers were deployed, though in one devastated city, soldiers were reduced to picking at rubble with their hands.

So we check in on Facebook and Twitter, but make pilgrimages to Antietam, Auschwitz and to the Acropolis, to gaze at rubble from the days of Pericles and Aristotle.

So it's actually hard to do the analysis because to a certain extent you are looking at rubble being pushed around.

REPORTER AT LARGE about rubble removal in Berlin.

The New Yorker, April 26 , 1952P. 84 REPORTER AT LARGE about rubble removal in Berlin.

Behind him, police officers inspected the crumpled chassis of incinerated cars and pulled at the rubble that piled like a snowdrift at the office's demolished entrance.

"Want to buy some?" In the hours after the twin towers came down, as Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani began imposing a media blackout at the rubble, hundreds, then thousands, of people converged at ground zero.

Neighbours hacked at the rubble with axes.

These days, tourists arrive to gawk at the rubble.