All 6 Uses
debris
in
The 5th Wave
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- The green wave roared over my curled-up body at the bottom, carrying along tons of debris, a rocketing mass of trees, dirt, the bodies of birds and squirrels and woodchucks and insects, the contents of the ash pit, shards of the pulverized barracks and storehouse—plywood, concrete, nails, tin—and the first couple of inches of soil in a hundred-yard radius of the blast.†
p. 99.1debris = pieces of something that has been destroyed; or trash that is lying around
- Weaving through the stalled cars that seem to pop through a white curtain, covered in three seasons' worth of debris.†
p. 288.1 *
- "Halfway up you're going to hit some debris," Evan says.†
p. 442.6
- Almost halfway to the top, but we haven't hit the debris Evan warned us about.†
p. 444.6
- BEN GRABS MY WRISTS when I near the top of the debris, but I gasp for him to pull Sammy up first.†
p. 448.1
- Then the blast of debris.†
p. 451.5
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)