All 9 Uses
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Sole Survivor
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- When the remains of his wife and children had been conveyed to him, after the investigation of the crash and the meticulous cataloguing of both the organic and the inorganic debris, Joe was given only fragments of their bodies.†
Chpt 1.3 *debris = pieces of something that has been destroyed; or trash that is lying around
- Although he understood the devastating effects of the airliner's impact, and though he knew that an unsparing fire had flashed through the debris, how strange it had seemed to Joe that Michelle's and the girls' physical remains should be so small.†
Chpt 1.3
- He skipped quickly past photographs of the crash scene, which revealed debris chopped into such small chunks and tangled in such surreal shapes that the baffled eye could not begin to reconstruct the aircraft from its ruins.†
Chpt 2.5
- The first was the eerie shot with the stormy sky, the scorched-black trees, the debris pulverized and twisted into surreal sculpture, where the NTSB investigators, faceless in biohazard suits and hoods, seemed to drift like praying monks or like ominous spirits in a cold and flameless chamber in some forgotten level of Hell.†
Chpt 2.6
- The debris was so finely chopped, so gnarled, so compacted, that on first look it was impossible to see that it had been a plane.†
Chpt 3.10
- All that immense hurtling energy released in an instant...you don't even recognize most of the biological debris as being human.†
Chpt 3.10
- It took some time in this case," she said, as with a sweep of one hand she indicated the scorched pines and aspens uphill, "because a lot of the organic debris was scattered as much as a hundred yards into the trees west and north of the impact."†
Chpt 3.10
- When Barbara first arrived in the meadow on the morning after the crash, the shredded and scattered debris of the 747-400 had not resembled the wreckage of an airliner.†
Chpt 3.11
- On all sides, flames lick mounds of twisted debris.†
Chpt 4.16
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)