detritus

Example Sentences

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It was still full of stranded belongings and furniture and detritus, but there were no neighbors there anymore.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

He worries that even more detritus will wash up on the beach in the future.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

Dotting the shoreline is a bleak expanse of detritus: timeworn pumps, tottering derricks, wayward cranes and aging pipelines.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026

A city cleaning crew stages occasional sweeps to collect and throw away the detritus.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

The sights were familiar, the inventory was the same, but now there was more of everything; vehicles, bomb craters, detritus.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan