Sentence examples for wreckage from inspiring English sources

His first office in October 1945 was a coal-hole among the wreckage left by a German bomber.

It boomed after the birth of mass motoring, then crashed in spectacular style thanks to industrial strife in the 70s before being salvaged by foreign owners picking through the wreckage.

It is also because walking through Algiers is like walking through the wreckage of a recently abandoned civilisation, whose citizens have only just departed in a hurry, leaving behind them their most personal possessions which you immediately recognise.

I've slept under snow in Norfolk, in caves in the Lake District, in the wreckage of a crashed 1948 B-29 Superfortress in Derbyshire, on mountaintops in north Wales, beside giant boulders in the Cairngorms and in bothies all over Scotland.

What survived the wreckage was finished off by Tamerlane the Great (himself a Muslim) in 1401.

Ratzenberger was helpless as the car slammed into the wall, the wreckage travelling 300 yards to Tosa corner.

Among the mourners are 50 French and German rescue workers who have been raking through the wreckage and searching for the remains of victims since 24 March.

Gildersleeve was the last victim to be found from the wreckage of train 188.

An occasional military truck or a Humvee speeds in the opposite direction, ferrying the injured and dead, passing the wreckage of an artillery piece, a blown-up turret from a Humvee and a great multitude of mangled metal objects.

Now, in Spiegel (Mirror), the Belgian choreographer takes a retrospective look at his work, confronting himself with the violence, wreckage and sheer volume of physical energy he has unleashed on stage.

Without any wreckage, evidence or viable cause for the crash, Gonzales and her four children – three daughters aged 29, 27 and 25, and a son, 15 – have been left bewildered and traumatised.