Debris In A Sentence

Definition of Debris

• He had no hope of clearing society of the intellectual and moral debris of ages at a stroke.
• There was a great heap of debris on the floor, and this the boys attacked with a vim.
• The roof of my cellar is arched brick and has a few tons of fallen debris on the floor upstairs.
• As they fell clouds of bricks and other debris were thrown in the air; the din was terrific.
• The burning sheds collapsed like packs of cards, the debris bursting into a series of fires.
• Inside the room, debris and wreckage were everywhere, and four men were prostrate on the floor.
• Late that night I found myself alone with Margaret amid the debris of the gathering.
• Our photographs show: (1) debris of the shattered framework; and (2) wreckage of the cars.
• The debris cleared, up went my camera, and, standing by the handle, I awaited the next.
• Many rivers were entirely choked by debris from the crumbled mountains and spread their waters in destructive floods.
• The waters surrounding these islands were as calm as a lake and all around our ship floated the debris of spices.
• It was wrapped in a week-old copy of a newspaper recovered from the debris around the new barracks.
• The debris was now smouldering sullenly in the cloudless, windless day that had succeeded the storm.
• The ground was here covered with broken branches and debris of all sorts, well tramped into the ground.
• They rummaged around through the construction debris and found a pair of small wooden boxes that had held instruments.
• Henry noticed that the water was still rising, and that the mass of floating debris was also increasing.
• The smell of the smoke and the dirt from the debris was choking, and every minute we expected to be our last.
• There was the tent still standing, and apparently uninjured by the storm of stones and debris that had rained down about it.
• 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.
• To pick one's way in the dark over strange ground littered with debris is not an easy task.
• Dirt and debris were to be seen in many places, and half a dozen sailors and marines had been killed or wounded.
• Here and there were partially demolished houses or farm structures, or cellars, choked with debris of what had once been houses.
• When the smoke cleared the sky was empty, except for a little scattered debris falling slowly to the ground.
• 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.
• Then with a mighty roar the earth and debris fell back upon itself, forming a crater about 150 feet across.
• 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.
• 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.
• External examination revealed no signs of an injury, although two of the other men had been badly battered by flying debris from the explosion.
• 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.
• He pointed to an old valise that, spread open, lay under the stairs amid the debris which the masons had left.
• The little curate desisted from the appendices and refuse heaps and general debris of his story, and made himself look very alert and intelligent.
• 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.
• It would have beaten the finest Indian scout to try and distinguish the trench from the debris and honeycomb of shell-holes.
• Sir William Hamilton distinguished the debris of no less than six eruptions besides that which destroyed it.

• Clear up the debris of the battle.
• Signs and debris of all description cluttered the roadway.
• Across the debris she bent, absorbed and tense.
• Mr. Meech sat up among the debris and listened.
• Once he looked up and saw a piece of cosmic debris smash into a monolith.
• Pat was clearing up the debris made by four men eating a picnic lunch.