Sentence examples for floating detritus from inspiring English sources
Sickels's adorable floating detritus — a miniature Playbill, Rubik's Cube and dollhouse table, cast in a sea of dry-cleaner blue plastic sheeting — muddies the message.
For those of us still clinging to the Big Brother dream like drowning sailors to floating detritus, summer doesn't mean extreme frisbee or dancing in the sun to Duke Dumont.
The show is best considered as an eco-predecessor to The Wombles, with the armoured, resourceful Clangers forced to deal with the floating detritus of Earth (including television sets), the messiest planet in the galaxy.
To have moved from the bleakness of sixty years ago, when millions of the dispossessed formed the floating detritus of the Second World War, to a time in which, as Michael O'Leary told me, planeloads of Danes and Norwegians merrily fly to England just for a soccer match may sound like a trivial change, but of such trivia is our freedom composed.
In that case, the flecks in the pictures may just be the floating detritus of globalisation, such as some of the thousands of shipping containers thought to be lost at sea every year.
The currents bring floating detritus (or detritus in the upper layer of the water column) (pogoga) from inside the lagoon and then flush the area with fresh seawater.
Submerged yards were filled with floating debris and the area was cluttered with detritus that had washed away.
Previous studies have reported an abundance of nematodes in floating mangrove detritus [ 35], drifting algae [ 36], and Phaeocystis 'seafoam' [ 37], promoting the role of raft attachment as a dispersal method.
But the animals moved themselves effortlessly out of the path of the tug and then reformed, six of them floating like furry detritus amid a mess of chartreuse seaweed.
As the sun rose, Dr. Holbreich and I sniffed the damp, fermented feed (slightly malty); shoveled fresh cow manure ("Liquid gold," Dr. Holbreich said only half-jokingly, "the best medicine you could think of"); and marveled at the detritus floating in the air.
Like Casey, Philadelphia's Plastic Little are interested in the detritus floating in hip-hop's jetstream.
