rubbly
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of rubbly
Example Sentences
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It's far from the dusty landscape of northern Afghanistan where they come from, where often the rubbly roads are not even suitable to walk on.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2023
Many are posed rhetorically by an unseen narrator intoning over a wide shot of a rubbly archaeological site.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2018
And the rubbly piles left behind may be impossible to pin down with an accurate age, which is key to matching glacial history to ocean climate records.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 11, 2014
However ghoulish or pro-al-Qaida your tastes, there's only so long you can look at the rubbly remains of a concrete compound before you start to think about lunch.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2013
The wind of the morning ruffled the water of the estuary and whispered through the mangroves, and the little waves beat on the rubbly beach with an increased tempo.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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