How to Use detritus in a Sentence

detritus

noun

• As he packed, he sifted through the detritus of a failed relationship.
• But accessing our detritus is often bad news for the bears.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2018
• The hybrid version of the car is plenty spacious, and there is a lot of space inside for the detritus of daily life.
  — Car and Driver, 22 Mar. 2018
• Somewhere underneath the detritus was the town, buried and abandoned.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• Moses would struggle cleaning up the Chip Kelly detritus.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024
• The lacy delicacy of his incised lines is all the more poignant for the in-the-street scrappiness of the detritus in which it is embedded.
  — David Pagel, latimes.com, 24 Mar. 2018
• Since then, major environmental laws have helped clean up much of the vivid toxic detritus in the soil, air, and water in the US.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 21 Apr. 2018
• Van Stone and others acknowledge many in Baltimore already do it without posting pictures of detritus on social media.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Still, at the end of the year there were no glue sticks in the bag of locker detritus.
  — Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• 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
• The hinge that allows the device to flex could let in water and detritus.
  — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
• Viral aerosols are tiny and compose just a small fraction of the detritus that floats around in the air.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• O’Reilly said the team already had, and there’s plenty of good to pick out of the detritus of the busted rager in downtown St. Louis.
  — Joan Niesen, SI.com, 10 June 2019
• 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
• The tarmac is lined with the detritus of those who had run the gauntlet and succeeded.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2021
• The pop culture detritus from the era suggests Yarrow is on to something.
  — Daniel Arkin /, NBC News, 23 June 2018
• The law requires that the detritus from a sector not fill more than 3.8 square inches.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2018
• 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
• Trash, including bottles and other detritus could be seen strewn on the ground near the back of the black sedan.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2020
• Permafrost—ground that remains frozen year-round—is capped by a few feet of dirt and plant detritus.
  — Katie Orlinsky, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
• But as more climbers visit the valley, rangers are finding more of the sport’s detritus throughout the park.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• Some pieces were simply plucked from the detritus and left unchanged.
  — Kevin Fagan, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2018
• 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
• An acrid miasma emanates from the pan in which the detritus sits.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 24 May 2018

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024