bomb site

British  

noun

1. an area where the buildings have been destroyed by bombs

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Example Sentences

Worsening shortages of basic goods including fuel and medicine have made daily life a struggle for many with parts of Beirut still looking like a bomb site.

From Reuters • Aug. 2, 2021

At Cardiff Crown Court, a judge said the steelworks looked "like a bomb site" after the blast.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2019

But the bomb site still looked like a bomb site: bits of headlight housings, things that looked like spark plugs, curled pieces of rubber that I assumed had once been tires.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2018

“We bought in this neighborhood because it was safe and quiet,” said Hume, who is 25 and lives five doors down from the bomb site with her husband, Chris, a software engineer.

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2018

At eleven o’clock on the night of the fifteenth, a government sedan picked up Lawrence for the bumpy three-hour ride to Compania Hill, a watching post twenty miles from the bomb site.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik