Example sentences for: debris

How can you use “debris” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Putting themselves in danger of falling debris, several officers entered the plaza and successfully rescued at least one injured, nonambulatory civilian, and attempted to rescue others.

  • Many of these men were thrown off their feet by the collapse of the South Tower; they then attempted to regroup in the darkness of the debris cloud and evacuate civilians and themselves, not knowing that the South Tower had collapsed.

  • Homogenates were centrifuged at 1,000 × g for 10 minutes to pellet cell debris and nuclei.

  • Some were confused by deviations in the increasingly crowded stairwells, and impeded by doors that appeared to be locked but actually were jammed by debris or shifting that resulted from the impact of the plane.

  • The resulting homogenate was centrifuged at 400 × g for 10 minutes to remove the gross cellular debris.


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