Sentence examples for detritus the from inspiring English sources

The smell of war's detritus — the bitter cordite and stench of decaying bodies, mixed with uncollected garbage — was inescapable.

Riders of the C train can forgive the typical subway detritus: the wrappers and cheese puffs and unfinished sandwiches.

The subjects are humble the detritus the artist spots on the sidewalk as he strolls through his London neighborhood.

Social space, urban detritus, the tension between hand and machine are tackled in psychologically and perceptually nuanced works.

In order to thread their way through the economic detritus, the agents and the sharp-edged apparatus of the Baathie state, Iraqis developed the trick of multiple personalities.

Rooting through boxes of office detritus the other day, I came upon an audiotape from a long-ago interview, and I perked up.

To do this, stir the water, ensuring all the detritus on the bottom is floating in the water.

They specialized in winnowing the detritus of the past, plucking the important material for collectors, scholars and institutions.

Long-period comets like Siding Spring are made up of the detritus from the earliest days of the solar system.

Or maybe the young at heart should just trust their instincts and go willy-nilly into the future, unhindered by the detritus of the past?

The characters suffocate, are stabbed to death, die crushed by the detritus of the world.