Sample Sentences for
debris
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  • Feeling it everywhere under my feet, I knew that the cay was littered with debris.  (source)
    debris = pieces of something that has been destroyed; or trash that is lying around
  • Squatting close to the ground, he followed the long shadow cast by the continuous mounds of mining debris.  (source)
  • 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)
  • There were building and awakening everywhere on this mound of débris formed by a mountain torrent.†  (source)
  • It took them a week to clear the 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)
  • Madame Hoo tried to make the injured woman as comfortable as possible on the debris-strewn floor.†  (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)
  • I pulled the joystick to the right, weaving through the digital debris one final time.†  (source)
  • But the apples must have set off enough mines, causing debris to activate the others.†  (source)
  • A lump of dirt was growing as gravity drew much of the debris downward again.†  (source)
  • We began to sort the debris into piles—aluminum, iron, steel, copper—so it could be sold.†  (source)
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