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pieces of something that has been destroyed; or trash that is lying around

She swept up the debris.

debris = pieces of something that has been destroyed; or trash that is lying around

They think they found debris from the missing airplane floating in the gulf.

debris = pieces

Debris from floods had caught in the limbs,
Wilson Rawls -- Where the Red Fern Grows

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.
Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony

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.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Sweat

debris = pieces of something that was broken

Feeling it everywhere under my feet, I knew that the cay was littered with debris.
Theodore Taylor -- The Cay

debris = pieces of something that has been destroyed; or trash that is lying around

A huge spiraling gout of sparks and flaming debris rushed up into the howling winter night.
Stephen King -- The Shining
He's tough," I said, and dropped down on the sofa among the debris.
Louis L'Amour -- The Broken Gun
I couldn't see Ari anywhere, but I did see a couple pairs of feet sticking out from beneath piles of debris.
James Patterson -- School's Out - Forever
And there was a lot of debris?
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
He moved up the side of the rubble and began digging around the debris with his bare hands.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
It's like watching a video of an explosion played backward, every piece of debris being sucked back into place, like nothing ever happened.
Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility
The road was littered with debris and it was work to get the cart through.
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road
Then came the explosion, a thunderous, groundshaking eruption right outside, followed by a hail of pebbles and debris.
Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
There was a stale, foul smell from all the debris.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Ahead, the door of the car pushed open slightly, but it was blocked by debris on either side.
Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
A skeleton with a tangle of brown hair adhering to it lay among the debris.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
By midweek, hopes for the block party started to disappear, the weeks of planning washed through the rusted drains with the gutters' debris.
Gloria Naylor -- The Women of Brewster Place
A lump of dirt was growing as gravity drew much of the debris downward again.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
I grasp for the words like a drowning man reaching for floating debris," .... you said you hated me?"
Gayle Forman -- Where She Went

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