Sentence examples for some detritus from inspiring English sources

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He pulled a pipe out of his breast pocket and picked some detritus from its mouth with his pinkie, but didn't light it.

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Most of the invertebrates (e.g., copepods, ostracods, nematodes, mystacocaridads, rotifers) fed on diatoms and periphyton, some ingested other invertebrates (e.g., flatworm, nematodes, copepods, mites), some consumed detritus (ostracods, bivalve, nematodes), and entrapped sediments (mostly nematodes).

Some programs leave other files around the Mac's system, though, and just deleting the application's icon from the computer may leave some digital detritus on your drive.

We grabbed and cleaned a couple of rocks, some kitchen detritus for nutrients and a couple of plastic lego blocks.

Such stories are common in Gujarat's detritus, some startling, some eerie, some pathetic.

(I filled up a Styrofoam cup with some of the detritus: it is still in my desk drawer).

(The spells tend to involve collecting exotic arrays of detritus, some kind of ritual chanting and the burying or tending of these jars).

Canoes – some with paddles, others with poles – bustle back and forth on waterways littered with bottles, jerrycans, wrappers and other detritus, some carrying only children.

Johnson's Ropa Usada, a concrete-and-cinder-block warehouse in the Texas border town McAllen, is the final resting place for some of the detritus of American consumer culture.

The year I helped move my parents out of the house they'd been in for more than 40 years, we would drag some of the detritus of the ages to the street and then stumble back for another load, and in the seven minutes it took to bring some more junk to the curb, the first pile would be picked clean.

Expecting to find an elaborate, high-tech system I was shocked by what I saw - a small, tatty old net that stopped some of the detritus but most of the sewage and waste still clearly got through.

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