debris

In a sentence

Six example sentences with debris, each labelled with its topic.

• Volunteers hauled six truckloads of plastic debris off the beach, most of it washed in by the autumn storms.

  Environment

• Orbital debris travels fast enough that a fleck of old paint can crack a spacecraft window in an instant.

  Science

• Crews sorted the debris by material so that the old brick could be cleaned and reused in the new courtyard.

  Architecture

• The game's destructible walls leave debris that piles up in doorways, so players must clear a path before advancing.

  Gaming

• The collapsing bridge scattered debris across the set, every chunk of it painted foam that weighed almost nothing.

  Movies

• Rockfall left debris across the mountain road, and the bus waited two hours while a loader cleared the lane.

  Travel

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