Sentence examples for human detritus from inspiring English sources

Michael Gove would be another shaken survivor, covered in human detritus from less fortunate colleagues.

Now, it shows every sign of becoming a permanent penal colony for the human detritus of the campaign against terrorism.

The story is about those who live on the fringes of war and care for its human detritus.

Increasingly, woodland-based hermitages and shrines in Italy are being decorated with plastic bags, litter and human detritus.

Much of the waste is discarded chicken heads and rotten meat, mixed in with other human detritus such as nappies, plastic bags and old toys.

There is a human detritus swirling around in the backwaters of the Welfare State which nobody seems able to do anything about.

The delight of improvisatory craftsmanship, combining lateral leaps with care and skill to make tiny works of perfection from human-sized detritus, is part of the appeal of life on a very small scale.

Since the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched was in 1957, the space neighborhood has become cluttered with human-made detritus — more than half a million pieces, by recent estimates, from the size of a marble on up.

By the 1960s and '70s, as scientific knowledge of the causes and consequences of environmental degradation was becoming more extensive and sophisticated, there was increasing concern among some scientists, intellectuals, and activists about Earth's ability to absorb the detritus of human economic activity and, indeed, to sustain human life.

Human beings became charred detritus.

Hanging in a room are life-size sharks in human clothing, and the detritus of a shipwreck.