Sentence examples for mere detritus from inspiring English sources

All over Brooklyn, one can imagine people looking up from their desks to notice a pencil, a stray magnet, an oversize button, all small, bright and yellow, no longer mere detritus, suddenly all creative inspiration.

Still, it is hard to imagine that the millions, or hundreds of millions of Justin Bieber fans also consider him to be mere cultural detritus.

The only thing in the play that could be described as a terrible but mere happening is the pirate's head, the single mocking detritus of the sources.

What makes Brandon Downing's use of the technique notable is that it is purely performative--the sort of aesthetic detritus that contributes to a poetics rather than "mere" semantic sense.

This is detritus.

Detritus is heaped all around.

Mere paranoia?

Human beings became charred detritus.

Plastic binders hold the detritus.

Detritus swirling around the infield at New Shea.

All the detritus of consumer capitalism.