detritus
Example Sentences
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He worries that even more detritus will wash up on the beach in the future.
From BBC
Dotting the shoreline is a bleak expanse of detritus: timeworn pumps, tottering derricks, wayward cranes and aging pipelines.
From Los Angeles Times
Images of cats painting, celebrities in compromising situations, and cartoon characters endorsing products are among the AI-generated detritus proliferating on social networks and video-sharing platforms.
From Barron's
A city cleaning crew stages occasional sweeps to collect and throw away the detritus.
In these photos, we find artifacts of childhood mixed with the detritus of adolescence.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
