pile of rubble

collocation in English

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pile
noun
uk
/paɪl/us
/paɪl/
objects positioned one on top ...
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rubble
noun[U]
uk
/ˈrʌb.əl/us
/ˈrʌb.əl/
the piles of broken stone and bricks, etc. that are left when a building falls down or ...
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(Definition ofpileandrubblefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpile of rubble

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Breaking through this wall, the excavators found a largepileofrubblefallen from the bedrock ceiling of the tomb.
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The largepileofrubbleon the west side of the barracks is to be sold as soon as possible.
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A photograph of that hospital was subsequently produced which showed it to be apileofrubble.
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Speculators are quite happy to convert our heritage into apileofrubbleby using their bulldozers as vehicles for ill-gotten gains.
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Where it was possible—it is not easily possible in the middle of apileofrubble—the travellers were houseproud and tidy and clearly took care of the site.
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Essex road was left apileofrubble, yet strangely, one wall survived and on that wall there was left hanging a picture, still in it usual place.
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The force of the blast caused the old building to collapse into apileofrubble.
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When it got so close that it was moving the earth beneath her, she climbed onto thepileofrubblebeing pushed by the bulldozer...
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The only remaining portion of the building is apileofrubble.
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Some items have a use and some are completely useless, such as the pile of entrails and thepileofrubble.
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It is apileofrubbleheld together by volcanic ash and sand.
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It is as if you took apileofrubbleand pushed up against a wall.
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Over the course of time, shops were built in the courtyard and the synagogue was left desolate, in apileofrubble.
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Two young men were pinned under apileofrubblewith a car stove full of glowing coals hanging over them.
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Today only apileofrubbleremains, reaching a height of about 10 m.
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The weaner cabin is no longer standing, although apileofrubbleremains from its foundation.
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Very few if any records were kept and several people have since desecrated the graveyard by reducing the graves themselves to apileofrubble.
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Only the stables remain, as the current estate offices, and a largepileofrubble.
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In late 2006, the site was empty and flat except for a largepileofrubblein one part of the site.
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