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  • Debris from floods had caught in the limbs,  (source)
    Debris = remains (stuff of no value that was left behind)
  • Squatting close to the ground, he followed the long shadow cast by the continuous mounds of mining debris.  (source)
    debris = pieces of something that has been destroyed; or trash that is lying around
  • She lay awake, gazing upon the debris that cluttered their matrimonial trail.  (source)
    debris = pieces of something that was broken
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  • Not a bear, whose large paws squished in debris, but a solid clunk in the brambles.†  (source)
    debris = pieces of something that has been destroyed; or trash that is lying around
  • There were building and awakening everywhere on this mound of débris formed by a mountain torrent.†  (source)
  • A truck piled high with produce drove by, losing a cloud of debris.†  (source)
  • The bizarre débris of some recent picture, a decayed street scene in India, a great cardboard whale, a monstrous tree bearing cherries large as basketballs, bloomed there by exotic dispensation, autochthonous as the pale amaranth, mimosa, cork oak or dwarfed pine.†  (source)
  • But the apples must have set off enough mines, causing debris to activate the others.†  (source)
  • The work of salvage, removal of débris, human remains etc has been entrusted to Messrs Michael Meade and Son, 159 Great Brunswick street, and Messrs T. and C. Martin, 77, 78, 79 and 80 North Wall, assisted by the men and officers of the Duke of Cornwall's light infantry under the general supervision of H. R. H., rear admiral, the right honourable sir Hercules Hannibal Habeas Corpus Anderson, K. G., K. P., K. T., P. C., K. C. B., M. P, J. P., M. B., D. S. O., S. O. D., M. F. H., M. R. I. A., B. L., Mus. Doc.†  (source)
  • It took them a week to clear the debris.†  (source)
  • I saw a bullet— pocked sign half buried at an angle in a heap of debris.†  (source)
  • I pulled the joystick to the right, weaving through the digital debris one final time.†  (source)
  • Hayden has lit a candle he found in the debris, making the basement smell like cinnamon over mildew.†  (source)
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