Sentence examples for blocks of rubble from inspiring English sources

Now, all she sees are three blocks of rubble.

The collapsed section fell mostly onto railway lines below and trapped vehicles beneath huge blocks of rubble, officials told AFP.

New York's major financial markets are all within a few blocks of the rubble that once was the World Trade Center.

The narrow streets of L'Aquila's historic center were filled with rubble, and parked cars were crushed under large blocks of debris.

In the town centre, and two inner suburbs, the worst hit areas, whole blocks are heaps of rubble.

There's an odd, dreamlike quality to taking a dip surrounded by cranes, half-built apartment blocks and piles of rubble.

The forces of President Bashar al-Assad have stepped up the use of such missiles, which often reduce city blocks to rubble, a strategy that analysts say suggests that the military lacks sufficient infantry to accomplish its goals.

MIAMI - ONE hot Saturday in February, the Meyer brothers were giving a visitor a long, slow tour of the new-new Miami, which, post-Wilma and in mid-boom, looked a lot like Beirut circa 1987, what with all the chewed-up palm trees, gaping lot holes and block-long piles of rubble.

He came to the area as pastor of St . Marys Roman Catholic Church in 1985, leaving behind a South Bronx parish ringed by desolate blocks of brick and rubble.

The South Bronx in 1977 looks like a war zone, with whole blocks reduced to piles of rubble.

True, the old guerrilla, looking frail as he was helped by bodyguards over a pile of rubble blocking his doorway, managed his familiar display of victimized fury.