"The dross overwhelms, the detritus is everywhere". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-05-23] Reference
Heap up a big mound of duff and detritus from the forest floor, then excavate a pocket that is large enough to crawl into. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Primitive Survival Shelters That Could Save Your Life] Reference
An adept hand with a pair of chopsticks is amazingly useful when removing a bit of random detritus from the garbage disposal. From Wordnik.com. [An open letter to Albert Payson Terhune:] Reference
I’m suprised your desk gets buried in detritus, I thought you had Bunnies for that kind of thing. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » Not so lazy Sunday] Reference
They supply lagoons with large quantities of detritus, which is later used by fish and invertebrates as a source of food. From Wordnik.com. [Mexican South Pacific Coast mangroves] Reference
Many people wander around with many things, and its undeniably a definining feature of the city that many, many street corners are covered in detritus. From Wordnik.com. [Trick.] Reference
Television screens flickering with images the Iraq war, Mickey Mouse and a TV evangelist are scattered among the detritus, which is also strewn with handcuffed corpses. From Wordnik.com. [phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed] Reference
Over the last three summers he's snared all kind of detritus blown into the water from. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - The best seat in the cove] Reference
The "detritus" in this case consists of bits of leaves, flowers, twigs, bark and any other plant materials that the spider web decorator chooses. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
Land mines are the lethal detritus of 20th-century warfare. From Wordnik.com. [Buried Terror ..Auw-Stacy Sullivan In Sarajevo] Reference
Then the Afghans will be left to pick through the detritus of our visit. From Wordnik.com. [Dennis Santiago: Re-Assessing Afghanistan From a National Interest Perspective] Reference
Seeing the detritus of modern American life made me reflect about mortality. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: Shoddy Nation] Reference
The burn specialists who tend to the drug's human detritus would surely agree. From Wordnik.com. [THE FALLOUT: 'I FELT MY FACE JUST MELTING'] Reference
It got awful gas mileage, but was perfect for hauling home a year's worth of detritus. From Wordnik.com. [Teens on the Road] Reference
Sam Gosling is on his hands and knees under a desk, examining the detritus covering the rug. From Wordnik.com. [You Are What You Keep] Reference
And, of course I hear the perpetual drone of traffic and observe desuetude, detritus and graffiti. From Wordnik.com. [Lisa Adams: Paris Has Its Seine, Vienna Has Its Danube, London Has Its Thames and We (Lucky Us) Have Our L.A. River] Reference
Like Vietnam, the military is again being asked to clean up the detritus of a failed foreign policy. From Wordnik.com. ['Staying The Course' Isn't An Option] Reference
I glanced around at the collection of filthy detritus clogging their living room, then looked at Carl. From Wordnik.com. [The Explanation] Reference
The map Toby gave us had a highlighted route to the Elk house through the maze of mounded detritus. From Wordnik.com. [Dump like no other.] Reference
A gigantic, jagged mass of detritus slanted upward from its crest -- red debris that had once been steel. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Wall] Reference
Buried inside the detritus were tiny flecks of gold that China National Gold Group Corp. plans to extract. From Wordnik.com. [China's Ore Demand Flies Under the Radar] Reference
Once you had collected all of this detritus, how did you begin constructing and creating your various works?. From Wordnik.com. [Kimberly Brooks: Artist John Dahlsen: Making Lemonade Out Of Trash] Reference
Alabama and Tombigby, is but the estuary at the head of Mobile Bay, silted up with detritus by the entering streams. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
There were felled trees, peeled-back awnings and blowing detritus, but so far, nothing like what Katrina left behind. From Wordnik.com. [Gustav’s Wallop] Reference
In one scene from Eli, a band of ruffians delivers to their boss (Gary Oldman) detritus they've found in their rampages. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Book] Reference
These artworks, employing the detritus of the city's splendid and varied architectural history, are clearly inspired by Katrina. From Wordnik.com. [Toward a New New Orleans] Reference
So how are we to deal with this man, who stands staring at us, surrounded by the horrid detritus of 50 years of dictatorial rule?. From Wordnik.com. [Kim Jong Il: The Truth Behind The Caricature] Reference
She turned to me one day, rubbish and other detritus piled high around her in the garage and said, “I want to give you this.”. From Wordnik.com. [Numberplate] Reference
Monica Madness, he knew, was history: his counsel, Charles Ruff, spent mere minutes briefing him on the legal detritus of the case. From Wordnik.com. [In The Line Of Fire] Reference
He hoisted the seeping basket, its stink oddly pleasant, then tipped it, loosing the detritus of his miserable life into the night. From Wordnik.com. [Fasting to a Comfortable Death] Reference
The Croen, Cyane, standing beside me, suddenly leaped off the ledge, her long limbs making easy going of the sloping detritus below. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
All this silt and detritus have served to fill up the northern part of the gulf, the result of the deposit being an immense land area. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
LEVI: When looking at all the computers we fit into the van, Dad said to me, "This is the detritus of 25 years of our electronic life.". From Wordnik.com. [Our Past Purchases: Was It Junk or Not?] Reference
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