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- Instead, they returned to the rue des Rosiers, where a single surviving security camera recorded them moving methodically through the debris, executing the wounded and the dying.†
p. 16.5debris = pieces of something that has been destroyed; or trash that is lying around
- NAVOT LAID A PHOTOGRAPH ON the table, a street in Beirut littered with the ancient debris of an antiquities gallery.†
p. 53.1
- Then, gradually, the smoke lifted and the devastation was revealed: the limbless and the lifeless, the sooty-faced survivors wandering dazed and partially disrobed through the debris, the shoes of a vendor scattered among the shoes of the dead.†
p. 84.6
- We found him beneath the debris.†
p. 299.5
- Swollen by runoff, clogged with tree limbs and debris, it flowed brown and heavy beneath Key Bridge as Saladin drove toward Virginia.†
p. 368.4
- He was submerged in a sea of debris, that much he knew, but he could not discern whether he was prone or supine, upright or topsy-turvy.†
p. 428.3
- He pushed with his hands, and the debris yielded.†
p. 428.9
- Gabriel swept aside more of the debris and, wincing, sat up.†
p. 429.2
- There were no bodies and very little debris on this side of the building; everything had been blown inward.†
p. 429.8 *
- Gabriel killed the connection to Mikhail and picked his way through the debris of what a moment ago had been the Operations Floor.†
p. 430.8
- Afterward, Shamron and Gabriel sat in their usual spot at the edge of the terrace, a gas heater burning between them, while the caterers cleared away the debris of the celebration.†
p. 511.6
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)