noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ building ( esp. BrE )
… OF RUBBLE
▪ heap , pile
▪
What was once a house was now a crumbling heap of ~.
VERB + RUBBLE
▪ be reduced to
▪
The school was reduced to ~.
▪ clear , clear away
▪ search , search through , sift through
▪
Rescue workers are searching the ~ for survivors.
▪
Police sifted through the ~ looking for clues.
PREPOSITION
▪ amid the ~ , among the ~
▪
She stood among the ~ left by the earthquake.
▪ beneath the ~ , under the ~
▪
Our car was buried somewhere under the ~.
▪ in the ~
▪
Several people were trapped in the ~.