Sentence examples for debris pieces from inspiring English sources

An unexploded rocket-propelled grenade was stuck in a ceiling, while several unexploded grenades, looking like large gray acorns, lay almost camouflaged next to the concrete construction debris, pieces of pipe and metal rods.

Yesterday, James Hartsfield, a spokesman for the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said NASA officials had earlier suggested that numerous debris pieces might have been involved at Columbia's liftoff and defended how Boeing focused only on the largest piece.

NASA estimates that more than 500,000 debris pieces, marble-sized and larger, are now caught in orbit.

Similarly, woody debris pieces are measured along transects using line intersect sampling and allometric relationships are applied to find biomass (Brown 1971).

Until the legal issues are sorted out, all proposed solutions will remain notional, or at best, limited to a small number of debris pieces.

It is very difficult to obtain the true anomaly of the fragments at the time of breakup by propagating the element sets of debris pieces backward in time owing to uncertainties in orbital elements and drag parameters.

Length is the length of each coarse woody debris piece between the small- and large-end diameters.

The shorter the sample transect or coarse woody debris piece the larger the volume that piece represents on a per unit area basis.

Information collected for every coarse woody debris piece intersected on each of three 7.32-m transects on each FIA subplot are transect diameter, length, small-end diameter, large-end diameter, decay class, and species.

Other debris included pieces of clothing strewn across the pavement.

The water butted against the debris, separating pieces out and carrying them away in the undertow.