Synonyms for wreckage


Grammar : Noun
Spell : rek-ij
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛk ɪdʒ


Définition of wreckage

Origin :
  • 1837, from wreck + -age.
  • noun remains
  • noun ruins
Example sentences :
  • So surely from out of the wreckage and passion a new woman will arise.
  • Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
  • He would get his friends together, and they would plan to save what they could from the wreckage.
  • Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
  • The cable that ran from it was entangled with the wreckage of the derrick, but it had not been cut.
  • Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin
  • He set to work to gather up the wreckage of the tent and outfit.
  • Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter
  • And the wreckage of their size-change mechanisms was strewn among them.
  • Extract from : « The World Beyond » by Raymond King Cummings
  • The storm was gone; only its wreckage lay in the still room within.
  • Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
  • If only that were so to fall out, I might yet contrive to mend the wreckage of my life.
  • Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini
  • Stan went over the wreckage and cut in between the other two Jerries.
  • Extract from : « A Yankee Flier Over Berlin » by Al Avery
  • Behind them they left the wreckage of eleven Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulfs.
  • Extract from : « A Yankee Flier Over Berlin » by Al Avery
  • But not only wreckage of this character is borne upon the flood.
  • Extract from : « Afloat on the Ohio » by Reuben Gold Thwaites

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