Collocations for "debris"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "debris" in context.
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debris
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [struck, hit] by [flying, hurling, falling] debris
- the debris from the [bomb, explosion, mortar fire, attack, impact]
- debris [resulting from, generated by] the bomb
- the [road, surface, square, street] was covered in debris (from)
- (the bomb's) debris [littered, covered] the streets
- [searched, looked, rummaged] in the debris
- searched in the debris for [victims, survivors]
- found a body (buried) in the debris
- dig through the debris
- [pulled, hauled, removed, rescued] from (among) the debris
- [pulled] out of the debris
- was covered in debris (from)
- [motionless, still, injured] under the debris
- found [twenty] survivors [under, among] the debris
- [clean, sweep] the roads of debris (left from)
- [yard, garden] debris
- [sweep, pile up, throw away] garden debris
'debris' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):