All 5 Uses
debris
in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
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- The debris did not cover her deeply.†
Chpt 1 *debris = pieces of something that has been destroyed; or trash that is lying around
- Mrs Hatsuyo Nakamura, the tailor's widow, having struggled up from under the ruins of her house after the explosion, and seeing Myeko, the youngest of her three children, buried breast-deep and unable to move, crawled across ~the debris, hauled at timbers, and flung tiles aside, in a hurried effort to free the child.†
Chpt 2
- It was so black under the books and debris that the borderline between awareness and unconsciousness was fine; she apparently crossed it Several times, for the pain seemed to come and go.†
Chpt 2
- The staff gradually swept up the debris.†
Chpt 3
- She cooked with utensils, and ate off plates she scavenged from the debris.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(debris) pieces of something that has been destroyed; or trash that is lying around
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)