How to Use "detritus" with Example Sentences

1. The characters suffocate , are stabbed to death , die crushed by the detritus of the world .

2. Chinese media said cranes were excavating the sites as children cried for help from beneath the detritus and as ambulances waited together with frantic parents .

3. Pictures showed barges covered in detritus and workers sorting through a mess of bottles , branches and styrofoam .

4. Like early natural history museums , which collected the detritus of phenomena both fascinating and only vaguely understood , the museum of jurassic technology is a celebration of the fruits of hungry , curious minds .