Wreckage Dictionary Definition

There were no trinkets, not even debris, that I could keep for another week of life. They just want to keep going, smiling politely at the rubble. The position in which the wreckage was reportedly seen on Monday morning was confirmed by landmarks taken in the morning. The pilot was trapped in the rubble for nearly seven hours. Pakistani troops even pushed back militants who tried to reach the wreckage of the downed drones. “Not if John Fly is carryin` dem,” began the colorful waiter, who looked at the wreckage with a sober face. When the sun set Monday and the search was canceled for the day, there was no positive update on the possible wreckage. What remains after an accident or destructive disaster is called a wreck. The day after tornadoes swept through a city, residents can search the rubble of their homes for souvenirs and valuables. We ask that you do not post photos of the wreckage, the helicopter in flight or the accident site. Charred beams and blackened walls looked bare and haggard in the glow of a smoking mass of debris. In a national referendum on Sunday, Swiss voters will decide whether companies based in those countries should be held legally liable, regardless of where environmental damage and human rights abuses occur.

The wreck lies no more than 100 feet deep in the Java Sea. When a bomb explodes, floods a city or burns a house, mutilated parts of buildings and cars are often left behind – rubble reminiscent of disaster. After hitting and sinking an iceberg, the wreck sat on the ocean floor for decades before divers found it. The wrecks come from wrecks, originally “goods washed ashore after a shipwreck”. Then the company went bankrupt and only ninety pounds a year were rescued from the rubble. As college football tries to pull out of the rubble of 2020, this game could set an optimistic tone. The pandemic has also left some travelers without an agent and combed through industry debris looking for a new travel professional. The wreckage of the Airbus A320 was located in relatively shallow water. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English. Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.