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Their relatives, their children, their parents, their brothers and sisters and friends are buried alive in tombs of twisted and broken concrete, critically injured and screaming in pain, slowly dying from untreated infection – or worst of all, lying putrefying in the 80 degree heat in the rubble-filled streets.

Think Progress » Chavez Attacks U.S. Efforts In Haiti: ‘They Are Occupying Haiti Undercover’ 2010

A rubble-filled, sand-coloured, dust-clogged compound in Afghanistan's Helmand Province becomes, in DC Moore's sharp The Empire, a version of Britain and a model of all wars.

Posh; The Empire; Hair 2010

This rundown, rubble-filled house with its weed patch yard and cat box that never gets emptied.

Wired's Geek Dad Picks 100 Quotes Every Geek Should Know « FirstShowing.net 2010

Tally crawled into the sleeping bag, then peered down through the rotted floors of the building to the rubble-filled foundation a hundred meters below.

Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

Every time Mahmoud deploys me, I will take my MacBook with me, and write about how I've turned functional societies led by sane, Holocaust-informed leaders, into rubble-filled wastelands.

Ben Berkon: On Iranian Nuclear Weapons - From the Perspective of an Iranian Nuclear Weapon 2009

In his 1982 book Falls Memories he says this city is for him "a rubble-filled wasteland filled with ghosts".

Johann Hari: Terrorist or Peace-Maker? An Exclusive Interview with Gerry Adams, Former Head of the I.R.A. 2009

So I can have them in the middle, for traditional "is this rubble-filled trench roughly level" checking.

Snell-Pym » Make your own spirit level! 2007

Workers are now sifting through the rubble-filled streets of Algeria's capital where dozens of people are feared dead after two suspected car bombs struck government and U.N. buildings.

CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2007 2007

And new tonight from Minneapolis, 11 days after the sudden and deadly collapse of that I-35W bridge, recovery workers pulled more human remains from the wreckage and rubble-filled Mississippi River today.

CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2007 2007

I hated to think that an island so rich in culture and beauty would be remembered as a rubble-filled scene of devastation.

A Once Peaceful Place Shattered By Terror 2007