Sentence examples for canvas of rubble from inspiring English sources

These brightly-coloured, cartoon-like facades seem to epitomise the fragile state of Somalia's recovery: rising commercialism on a canvas of rubble and bullet-holes.Back at the airport, I meet brigadier general Dick Olum, who heads the Ugandan contingent of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), the multinational "peace enforcement" body tasked with restoring law and order.

Mountains of rubble remain.

Men climbed the mounds of rubble, searching.

Highways, flames, smoke, piles of rubble.

Great piles of rubble hinder reconstruction.

"There were ten million cubic feet of rubble!

Berlin was a heap of rubble.

The rubble problem in Berlin-thirty to thirty-five million cubic yards of rubble to dispose of.

"It's not just the rubble, it's the question of rubble ownership," Mr. Scales said.

With a side order of rubble.

Weeds grow from mountains of rubble.