smoking wreckage

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Describes wreckage that is producing smoke, possibly after a fire.

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Examples (10)

  • After the explosion, only smoking wreckage remained.
  • Firefighters carefully approached the smoking wreckage of the car.
  • The plane crashed, leaving a trail of smoking wreckage across the field.
  • Rescuers searched through the smoking wreckage for survivors.
  • Hours after the fire, parts of the building were still smoking wreckage.
  • From a distance, they could see the smoking wreckage of the train.
  • The accident left behind a scene of twisted metal and smoking wreckage.
  • Investigators sifted through the smoking wreckage to find clues.
  • Despite the smoking wreckage, miraculously, some passengers survived.
  • The factory was reduced to smoking wreckage after the intense blaze.