Debris in a sentence 🔊
Definition of Debris Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed. | Litter and discarded refuse. | The ruins of a broken-down structure
Short Example Sentence for Debris
- 1. Clear up the debris of the battle. 🔊
- 2. Signs and debris of all description cluttered the roadway. 🔊
- 3. Across the debris she bent, absorbed and tense. 🔊
- 4. Mr. Meech sat up among the debris and listened. 🔊
- 5. Once he looked up and saw a piece of cosmic debris smash into a monolith. 🔊
- 6. Pat was clearing up the debris made by four men eating a picnic lunch. 🔊
How to use Debris in a Sentence?
- 1. He had no hope of clearing society of the intellectual and moral debris of ages at a stroke. 🔊
- 2. There was a great heap of debris on the floor, and this the boys attacked with a vim. 🔊
- 3. The roof of my cellar is arched brick and has a few tons of fallen debris on the floor upstairs. 🔊
- 4. As they fell clouds of bricks and other debris were thrown in the air; the din was terrific. 🔊
- 5. The burning sheds collapsed like packs of cards, the debris bursting into a series of fires. 🔊
- 6. Inside the room, debris and wreckage were everywhere, and four men were prostrate on the floor. 🔊
- 7. Late that night I found myself alone with Margaret amid the debris of the gathering. 🔊
- 8. Our photographs show: (1) debris of the shattered framework; and (2) wreckage of the cars. 🔊
- 9. The debris cleared, up went my camera, and, standing by the handle, I awaited the next. 🔊
- 10. Many rivers were entirely choked by debris from the crumbled mountains and spread their waters in destructive floods. 🔊
- 11. The waters surrounding these islands were as calm as a lake and all around our ship floated the debris of spices. 🔊
- 12. It was wrapped in a week-old copy of a newspaper recovered from the debris around the new barracks. 🔊
- 13. The debris was now smouldering sullenly in the cloudless, windless day that had succeeded the storm. 🔊
- 14. The ground was here covered with broken branches and debris of all sorts, well tramped into the ground. 🔊
- 15. They rummaged around through the construction debris and found a pair of small wooden boxes that had held instruments. 🔊
- 16. Henry noticed that the water was still rising, and that the mass of floating debris was also increasing. 🔊
- 17. The smell of the smoke and the dirt from the debris was choking, and every minute we expected to be our last. 🔊
- 18. There was the tent still standing, and apparently uninjured by the storm of stones and debris that had rained down about it. 🔊
- 19. To be whisked away in a plumed hearse to a grave dug out of the debris of a hundred forgotten graves was the climax of insult. 🔊
- 20. To pick one's way in the dark over strange ground littered with debris is not an easy task. 🔊
- 21. Dirt and debris were to be seen in many places, and half a dozen sailors and marines had been killed or wounded. 🔊
- 22. Here and there were partially demolished houses or farm structures, or cellars, choked with debris of what had once been houses. 🔊
- 23. When the smoke cleared the sky was empty, except for a little scattered debris falling slowly to the ground. 🔊
- 24. All one morning they had worked gathering debris and placing it so that it turned the course of a rapid stream that threatened the larger house. 🔊
- 25. Then with a mighty roar the earth and debris fell back upon itself, forming a crater about 150 feet across. 🔊
- 26. Evidently the dam of debris had given way, for it roared in full flood now, and it was with anxiety that we quickened our pace. 🔊
- 27. There was a machine-gun on the end of the western pier, and that vanished in the roar and the leap of flame and debris which called to the guns. 🔊
- 28. External examination revealed no signs of an injury, although two of the other men had been badly battered by flying debris from the explosion. 🔊
- 29. It looked like a tiny volcano, belching up fire and debris and pushing up through the midst of it a great black canopy of smoke. 🔊
- 30. He pointed to an old valise that, spread open, lay under the stairs amid the debris which the masons had left. 🔊
- 31. The little curate desisted from the appendices and refuse heaps and general debris of his story, and made himself look very alert and intelligent. 🔊
- 32. While the two men were trying to repair the car, the girls worked to clear away the stones and débris that encumbered and blocked the road. 🔊
- 33. It would have beaten the finest Indian scout to try and distinguish the trench from the debris and honeycomb of shell-holes. 🔊
- 34. Sir William Hamilton distinguished the debris of no less than six eruptions besides that which destroyed it. 🔊