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debris
in
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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- It had shattered like a giant egg, its pieces all mixed up in a heap of debris and smashed floorboards.†
p. 111.8 *debris = pieces of something that has been destroyed; or trash that is lying around
- Beneath the debris I could hear the scrabble of tiny feet, some rodentine dark-dweller that had survived the implosion of its world.†
p. 113.6
- I felt like a rescue worker, plucking faces from the debris, brushing away glass and wood rot.†
p. 113.8
- I half-expected to find another photo in the debris of the same girls facing forward, revealing grinning skulls for faces.†
p. 114.5
- I didn't dare move, afraid that the slightest motion would set off a noisy avalanche of debris all around me.†
p. 120.6
- I was wretched looking, damp from rain and dust-covered and squatting in a mound of debris.†
p. 123.1
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)