After the quake she helped lug the conservatory's grand pianos from the rubble.
Unless you were trapped in the rubble and slowly died of thirst.
The main effect of this money is to make the rubble bounce.
The only dry land consists of a few spits of sun-whitened coral rubble and the dead shells of giant clams.
He swings the pick a few times before kneeling to inspect something unusual and then worries at some loose rubble with his hands.
He filled it with smooth rock instead of the usual rubble.
What the people digging through the rubble here at the center of the earthquake zone are pulling out now is entirely inanimate.
The corpses and rubble that littered the streets during five months of civil strife have gone.
It was unreal-an entire city had been reduced to rubble.
Your own street is a clutter of rubble and collapsed buildings.
British Dictionary definitions for rubble
rubble
/ˈrʌbəl/
noun
1.
fragments of broken stones, bricks, etc
2.
any fragmented solid material, esp the debris from ruined buildings
3.
(quarrying) the weathered surface layer of rock
4.
Also called rubblework. masonry constructed of broken pieces of rock, stone, etc
Derived Forms
rubbly, adjective
Word Origin
C14 robyl; perhaps related to Middle English rubben to rub, or to rubbish
Word Origin and History for rubble
n.
"rough, irregular stones broken from larger masses," late 14c., robeyl, from Anglo-French *robel "bits of broken stone," probably related to rubbish [OED], but also possibly from Old French robe (see rob).