RUBBLE in a Sentence

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For RUBBLE, below is one of 4 sentences:
But, determined to build himself a monument of a reputation quickly, he used any handy rubble in the making.

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 Meanings and Examples of RUBBLE
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rubble
 n.  broken fragments; irregular pieces of rock
Classic Sentence:
1  But, determined to build himself a monument of a reputation quickly, he used any handy rubble in the making.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  "Oh, he's all right, a good horse," answered Rostov, though the horse for which he had paid seven hundred rubbles was not worth half that sum.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  A Haitian woman covered in rubble is rescued in Port-au-Prince after a huge earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation.
2  The explosion reduced the church to a mass of rubble.