All 6 Uses
debris
in
Ceremony, by Silko
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- He tossed in the old iron bed, and the coiled springs kept squeaking even after he lay still again, calling up humid dreams of black night and loud voices rolling him over and over again like debris caught in a flood.†
Chpt Alldebris = pieces of something that has been destroyed; or trash that is lying around
- He could smell the foaming flood water, stagnant and ripe with the rotting debris it carried past each village, sucking up their sewage, their waste, the dead animals.†
Chpt All
- He wanted to dismiss all of it as an old man's rubbish, debris that had fallen out of the years, but the boxes and trunks, the bundles and stacks were plainly part of the pattern: they followed the concentric shadows of the room.†
Chpt All
- Arroyos might be dry for years, but when heavy rains did come, the run-off carried boulders and logs down the arroyo, where they snagged weeds and sticks and other debris.†
Chpt All
- With a little work the debris could be shifted, small logs and dry limbs placed between boulders to form a barrier that only flood water could pour through.†
Chpt All
- Squatting close to the ground, he followed the long shadow cast by the continuous mounds of mining debris.
Chpt All *
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)