The phrase "a detritus of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a collection of remnants or debris resulting from a particular process or situation.
Example: "The old factory was filled with a detritus of broken machinery and rusted metal."
Alternatives: "a residue of" or "a remnant of".
But with the UK now emerging from this grammar lull, a detritus of lingering grammar myths and unconfident "lost generation" teachers are left behind.
Yet he does caustically capture a hard truth: the nature and traditions of Africa are being "nibbled" away, leaving a detritus (of many kinds) that has to be sloughed off in order for a healthier and more African Africa to move ahead.
The sweep of life leaves a detritus of friends behind.
Like Carver, she writes about a young couple who have fallen out of love and are playing a bittersweet game amid the detritus of their life together.
The turbidity-flow sandstones have a detritus content of 53% and 62.5%, which is lower than that of the sandy-debris-flow sandstones.
This enticingly exotic subject of Western fantasy may well be a corpse.In the "Today's Life and War" (2008) series by Gohar Dashti, an Iranian photographer, a couple pursues a relationship amid the detritus of a battlefield.
A few feet away in the gallery, a stone liquor jug with a broken handle, the detritus of a 19th-century evening in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn, stands inside a clear case.
For years the dollar store has not only made a market out of the detritus of a hyperproductive global manufacturing system, but it has also made it appealing — by making it amazingly cheap.
His weary eyes convey the emptiness of a lonely man isolated in the detritus of a dream world that is evaporating before his eyes.
It looks like the detritus of a carnival or a mutant biological form that has vomited out the entire colour spectrum.
And now they hang in an exhibit, the detritus of dreams.
