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How to use rubble in a sentence

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A woman cavorted in the rubble in a ghostly dance out of sync with the throbbing music.
Construction is of rendered rubble walls, with brick features around window and door openings, brick quoins and a pitched slated roof.
Hopes that the workmen would finish the job on Monday were dashed when they left before lunchtime, with the chimney and rubble still in place.
He broke down walls with a lump hammer, attacked concrete steps with a Kango drill, filled wheelbarrows with rubble and dumped it in skips.
Or perhaps, twisted, tangled strands of rebar poking through piles of concrete rubble in the demolished remains of a hotel or a factory.
As bulldozers started clearing the rubble, two drinks glasses still stood on a window sill.
The streets were a toddler's wonderland of rubble, smashed window frames, half-demolished air-raid shelters.
The death toll has steadily risen to 38 as more bodies have been recovered from the rubble.
And only minutes before ascending, we found a two-metre wobbegong perfectly camouflaged in a bed of rubble.
I recycle our garden waste, old clothes and shoes and even the rubble and soil I dug from the garden when I redeveloped it.
A large part of the Paradise Hotel was reduced to rubble and the rest was reduced to a smouldering shell.
Bushes were cleared, the land was levelled and strengthened by filling it up with rubble.
It lasted for nine days in all and reduced three of the fourteen regions of the city to rubble, leaving only four regions untouched.
Minutes later, as everything cleared, the rubble and remains were disturbed.
Excavations between 1963 and 1965 demonstrated that the ramparts were composed of chalk rubble with timber revetments.
Soon Kyrithin spotted a bright flash of red material through the rubble and they both ran over.
The pure, life-giving water was dying, crushed under the weight of more and more rubble falling in, inflicting endless wounds.
The bottom of the partially built lift shaft on a building site at Clacton was lined with rubble.
This will be done by taking the tower apart piece by piece and removing the rubble in secure containers.
Built of flint and rubble with dressings of Binstead stone, the aisleless apsidal church has only one entrance.
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It is built of rubble masonry, with ashlar facework, laid in hydraulic mortar.
The pyramid was then a dummy, made of rubble within a revetment of heavy flint nodules, which was faced with fine limestone.
Where there had been shops and hotels, there were now heaps of rubble and calcined bricks.
I folded there, and the next thing I knew, I was on my side in the rubble under the freeway, holding myself and crying.
His foot hit some of the rubble on the ground at the last second, and he skidded.
On June 15 in Otter Creek young darters were abundant in streamside detritus and in clear, shallow, rubble riffles.
Only bleak, black and gray hills of rock and rubble were there, no cars, no life.
Imagine the grey wilderness of stone and rubble, of old workings and knacked bals.
His surefooted broncho scrambled catlike up steep inclines and slid in clouds of dust down breakneck hillsides of loose rubble.
The pillar which had supported the head was crumbling away, breaking into a rubble which cascaded across the stone ledge.
This precaution should be observed, not only with dimension stone, but also with the rubble which is to be used in walls.
It was composed of chalk, ragstone, and rubble, exactly resembling the walls of the church.
Besides, it depends on the owner whether he desires to build in brick, or rubble work, or dimension stone.
Gordon managed to get onto a pile of rubble where he could see over the crowd.
The lower couple of feet consist of rubble and the top three feet are filled with loamy soil and gravel.
Slowly I thrust myself out through the red weed, and stood upon the mound of rubble.
Presently this incline became even steeper, and we found ourselves climbing upon hands and knees among loose rubble which slid from beneath us.
I noticed as I felt about the floor in the dim light that there was a pile of fresh-turned rubble there.
Pieces of the roof had fallen at some long-distant date, as was evidenced by the depth of the filth and rubble in which they were embedded.
A few inches at a time, resting in between, he dragged him over the ground and up a broken rubble of ice to the side of the boat.
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