Debris In A Sentence

Q: How to use debris in a sentence?

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.

How To Use Debris In A Sentence?

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.