How to Use detritus in a Sentence

detritus

noun

• As he packed, he sifted through the detritus of a failed relationship.
• Among the detritus cleared from gutters and lawns are the future of the state’s forests.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
• And now for the detritus of a 100-loss season: Who inevitably takes the fall?
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2021
• Track detritus to right of us In line with sand castle to left.
  — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
• Over the years, the public has seen the detritus of violence such as the blood stains and the police tape.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• But for those who have time to search through the detritus, a hidden gem may await you: A pair of 9.5-size turquoise high heels.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
• As the water streams in, so does the detritus of the city—packets of chips, beer bottles, medicine boxes and the odd flip-flop.
  — Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
• The surfaces of the suite are strewn with the remnants of swag-bag assembly and the detritus of living with teenagers.
  — Lucy Feldman, Time, 10 July 2023
• Alongside the bones, Mouer found detritus - 25 leather shoes, olive green glass bottles, the remains of three dogs and a cat.
  — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2022
• But what will determine this team’s fate still lies ahead of it and in their own hands, not the detritus of this series.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
• That scene of beach detritus—the conference of shells—lodged itself in my brain.
  — Laura Bannister, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2022
• From his garage to room after room, the house is packed with the detritus of fame adjacency.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024
• Oak Ridge sprang to life from ground littered with the detritus of uprooted lives.
  — Denise Kiernan, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• Pizza Rat exists on my phone amid the detritus of a more hopeful life.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• That’s largely thanks to ranchers and farmers, who clear-cut the forest and burn the detritus to make way for crops and cattle.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Mar. 2022
• Next to a makeshift grave of three people — a woman in her 20s and two men in their 30s — the detritus of Russian ration packs still littered the ground.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• On the table the detritus of a meal, a soiled napkin, sodden leaves in the salad bowl, soft drops of blue-white candle wax on the tablecloth.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
• The tour revealed thickets of weedy grass, old tires, and other rusty detritus.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2022
• According to the press pool, bikes, strollers, toys and lawn chairs were still visible in the area -- detritus from those who fled the attack.
  — Adam Carlson, ABC News, 5 July 2022
• The piece transforms the wall with a cluster of dents and gashes, leaving a scree of detritus beneath it; the head itself lies among the rubble.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2024
• Biden's motorcade wound along a creek with banks strewn with flood detritus.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2022
• There were large pieces of driftwood and other detritus swirling in the brown, rushing current.
  — Amy Ettiinger, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• However, if the supply of detritus was not enough, the urchins would emerge from safety and feed on standing kelp.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
• As Warfield picked through the detritus scattered around his home, neighbors continued to check in on him.
  — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• Heap up a big mound of duff and detritus from the forest floor, then excavate a pocket that is large enough to crawl into.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
• As the urchins eat standing kelp, the supply of detritus is decreased, which in turn causes the urchins to consume more standing kelp.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
• The parking lot is ringed with wooden pallets and other detritus, and weeds poke through the gravel.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
• In this case, the detritus is part of a human jawbone, with a single molar and a bit of tissue still attached.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Jan. 2022
• All the while, a single tree grows from sprout to sapling to a mature tree, holding in its branches the detritus of the man’s life experiences.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas and John Maher, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2021
• But the apartment, like other artists’ spaces, is a record of absence, the detritus of a life preserved after the living is done.
  — New York Times, 10 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024