Sentence examples for bits of detritus from inspiring English sources

(Also like mice, they leave tiny bits of detritus).

Mr. Laurent, for his part, dutifully combs the beach, gathering wonderful bits of detritus from that much-mythologized moment.

Rebecca Warren's room contained three types of sculpture: gestural figures made of bronze, unfired clay forms, and vitrines that held bits of detritus, including a cherry pit and a used cotton ball.

Ms. Silverthorne also takes bits of detritus left over from the casting process and blows them up into swollen, biomorphic shapes, like "Two Fragments," a pair of yellow blobs set like high sculpture on a black base.

In his show last fall at the D'Amelio Terras Gallery in Chelsea, Mr. Feher arranged sundry bits of detritus to resemble the signature compositional riffs of the leading Minimalists.

He displayed a felicitous genius for accidental events: a coffee spill, ink blot, bits of detritus, phone bill, a paper cup or cigarette butt could each be reconfigured and incorporated into his drawings.

One, a series of distressed glass and wood boxes, each containing a little bit of detritus, suggests reliquaries.

There's a stove and other bits of homely detritus.

Water is scarce and the land is rocky, every inch of it terraced and planted with olive trees, and flung here and there are bits of ancient detritus.

One brings home a dead dog, and tries to make him whole again by patching him up with bits of household detritus; but he howls all night.

Those are just a few of the more than 70 bits of romantic detritus in a traveling exhibition from the Museum of Broken Relationships from Zagreb, Croatia, which landed at the Istinye Park mall just in time for Valentine's Day.