Rubble meaning

Noun: rubble

Pronunciation: (ru-bul)

Rubble meaning: The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up.

Synonyms: debris, detritus, dust, junk

Quotations: Ken Tower – When the companies actually come in with their earnings announcements, we’re going to move a lot higher. I think when investors look through the rubble after the correction we’ve seen they are going to find some real good values.

Winston Churchill – If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

George Bush – Out of this despair is going to come a vibrant coast, I understand if you’re saying to yourself, ‘Well, it’s hard for me to realize what George W. is saying because I’ve seen the rubble and I know what has happened to my neighbours. But I’d like to come back down here in about two years and walk your streets and see how vital this part of the world is going to be.

Ralph Acampora – The good news about the market’s July to September 1998 decline is that so far it has created quite a bit of value, especially in the large capitalization area. It is now time for those who have a long term perspective to start picking through the rubble of the past several months and identify those groups and stocks that hopefully will bottom out in the weeks ahead and will become new investment vehicles. Start your search now.

Larry Melman – I went out there myself, and it was just a pile of rubble with some guys moving stuff around. It is disappointing. As long as something still is standing, you always can work something out to preserve it. We felt we were only a couple of weeks away from finding a place to move it.

Sample sentences:

1. The legs of the earthquake victim were buried in the rubble.
2. We have cleared away all the rubble from the demolished building.
3. I don’t think anybody is alive in this pile of rubble. But we have not lost hope.
4. It may cost a little more to build, but it will be worth it to not come back to a pile of rubble after the next big storm.
5. Just imagine how many villages and towns became a heap of rubble and how many people got buried.
6. There’s so much rubble, we won’t know for a while. But I fully expect the number to be in the hundreds.
7. Are we going to have tens of thousands of people staying in the rubble and in the snow until it’s too late? Maybe. It’s a logistical nightmare.
8. If there is anyone in the rubble, they are either unconscious or dead. It has always been a race against time, but now the chances of finding someone alive are extremely slim.
9. That’s a positive indicator to us that there may be somebody, something making a noise down in the rubble pile, that’s the reason why we’re not giving up hope.
10. It’s looking pretty impressive. There’s quite a pile of rock and rubble.