Sentence examples for patch of rubble from inspiring English sources

The road is passable, but there is still an impressive patch of rubble.

She pointed to a patch of rubble with a glimmer of daylight coming through it — we could hear the low rumbling of trucks outside — then to cracks and gaps in the other walls.

— Two days after a huge tornado barreled through this working-class town, authorities reopened the worst-hit neighborhoods for the first time on Wednesday, giving residents a few hours to search for wedding rings, retrieve abandoned pets and pry apart a briar patch of rubble to see what had survived and what had not.

He emerged from his black van and stood on a cleared, dirt patch in the midst of acres of rubble, splintered wood and collapsed red tile roofs, and waved somberly to the villagers.

By late afternoon, the jaws of huge cranes were biting indiscriminately into the piles of rubble, while police officers, firefighters, soldiers and other rescue workers pried at the ground with shovels and crow bars to free body parts, bits of human flesh, and rubbery patches of skin.

HOUSING To grasp the scope of Mr. Koch's accomplishment, consider the visit that President Jimmy Carter made in 1977 to the South Bronx, where he stood with Mayor Abraham D. Beame in a rubble-strewed patch of Charlotte Street against a backdrop of ghostly, gutted buildings.

The camera promptly pulls back to reveal our man on the spot in a decidedly elevated position; the "this" in question is one of three giant mountains of muck and rubble on a patch of waste ground.

At the site where residents say a sarin-loaded rocket fell, only mounds of rubble stand amid scorched earth, remnants of houses and patches of garden ringed by narrow streets that were so packed with bodies on the night of the attack that they said it was impossible not to step or drive over the dead.

Mountains of rubble remain.

Highways, flames, smoke, piles of rubble.

Berlin was a heap of rubble.