wreckage
Origin of wreckage
Examples from the Web for wreckage
Contemporary Examples of wreckage
The wreckage lies no more than around 100 feet down in the Java Sea.
Search teams find dozens of people and jet debris floating in the Java Sea, as the airline confirms the wreckage is from QZ8501.
The wreckage of the Airbus A320 has been located in relatively shallow water.
Pakistani troops even fought off militants attempting to reach the wreckage of drones that had crashed.
Obama’s Deadly Informants: The Drone Spotters of PakistanUmar Farooq, Syed Fakhar Kakakhel
November 12, 2014
But what actually determines the amount of wreckage left floating on the surface?
Historical Examples of wreckage
So surely from out of the wreckage and passion a new woman will arise.
The Truth About WomanC. Gasquoine Hartley
He would get his friends together, and they would plan to save what they could from the wreckage.
Changing WindsSt. John G. Ervine
The cable that ran from it was entangled with the wreckage of the derrick, but it had not been cut.
Two Thousand Miles BelowCharles Willard Diffin
He set to work to gather up the wreckage of the tent and outfit.
Louisiana LouWilliam West Winter
And the wreckage of their size-change mechanisms was strewn among them.
The World BeyondRaymond King Cummings
wreckage
- same as wreck (def. 6)
- the act of wrecking or the state of being wrecked; ruin or destruction