debris
IPA: dʌbrˈi
noun
- Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
- Litter and discarded refuse.
- The ruins of a broken-down structure.
- (geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.
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Examples of "debris" in Sentences
- The red and yellow are the debris.
- The compartments collect the debris.
- The barrier is the rocky debris on the left side.
- The debris accumulated into the Earth and the Moon.
- For three days people rummaged the debris for bodies.
- MYERS: We have a lot of what we call debris in the air.
- It is located amongst the debris at the base of the foodplant.
- Nevertheless, the majority of debris objects remain unobserved.
- But the roof is already caved in and the debris covers the wall.
- The left over debris is called meteoric dust or just meteor dust.
- In the second stage, the coffee is hulled and the debris is removed.
- OVERALL: And this is -- I guess this is what they call the debris field.
- So there wasn't enough time to do what they call a debris avoidance maneuver.
- The satellite debris is projected to come within about half a mile of the space station early Tuesday.
- Instead, he found Moreland inside, apparently dead, half-buried in debris from a direct bomb hit on the operations center.
- The officer did not see the crash, which occurred about 9: 50 p.m., but came upon what he described as a debris cloud, police
- The officer who was in pursuit just moments earlier did not see the crash, but came upon what he described as a debris cloud, said police
- The flight dynamics folks stated that the debris is approximately 10 cm in size, 2.8 km in front of Atlantis, .15 km below and 3.9 km out of plane.
- Given that, in most shooters, you have to avoid these kinds of explosions to stay alive, it takes a while for you to realise that collecting this debris is a good idea.