debris

Example Sentences

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I bring the book on whales plus my trash-picking supplies, since even in the darkness I noticed there was some debris on the beach.

From Literature

“And then we have wildfires, and when that happens, often we can have debris flows coming down these mountainsides.”

From Los Angeles Times

The train struck debris from a landslide on the track, derailed, and collided with a bridge parapet.

From BBC

Thousands of discarded human-made objects are circling Earth, and when pieces of that space debris fall back to the surface, they can pose risks to people on the ground.

From Science Daily

If the object turns out to be a star, the cloud would be considered a circumsecondary disk, meaning a debris disk orbiting the smaller member of a two-star system.

From Science Daily