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Debris
"Debris" in a Sentence (13 examples)
First they saw the debris then they looked at each other.
The cupboards were overflowing with the accumulated debris of several years.
It's hard to believe that no one was covered by the building's debris in the earthquake this morning.
Tom looked through the debris on the floor.
Satellite imagery is being used in an effort to narrow down the area in the Indian Ocean where floating debris has been observed.
Can we narrow down the ocean area where floating debris is supposed to be?
Microplastics are microscopic particles of plastic debris that pollute the oceans.
Haumea is a dwarf planet found in the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt is a big cloud of gas, dust, and rocky debris located at the outer edge of our solar system.
Makemake is located in the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt is an area of gas, dust, and rocky debris located at the outer edge of our solar system.
A meteoroid is a piece of stone-like or metal-like debris which travels in outer space.
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His neighbors were still ripping out debris. But Mr. Ryan, a retired bricklayer who built his house by hand 30 years ago only to lose most of it to Hurricane Sandy, was already hard at work rebuilding.
But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
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