Detritus in a sentence

Animals in the water column are almost entirely dependent on primary production from living phytoplankton, while animals living on or in the ocean floor feed on detritus or can switch to detritus feeding.

Carnivores may capture some prey which are part of a plant-based trophic system and others that are part of a detritus-based trophic system (a bird that feeds both on herbivorous grasshoppers and earthworms, which consume detritus).

Lately, a big clean-up has been under way, including clearing the detritus left by birds.

Of note, the biomass industry, which creates fuel from wood pellets, forestry waste, and other detritus of the nation’s lumber supply and forests, also wants to be approved for future eRIN opportunities.

Once cleaned of heavy metals, microplastics, sand and other detritus, sargassum is finding many uses, particularly as biogas, but also biofertilizer, cellulose packaging and even artificial vegan leather.

The detritus is moved from one place to another using transportation, construction tools––every piece of heavy-lifting technology there is.

Using a rig attachment called a cherry picker — imagine a four-foot steel clothespin — he worked to spear unknown detritus from the depths.

Viewers were fascinated by the resurrection of intricate age-old details as centuries-old detritus was gently stripped away.

But in the postmodern era, "kitsch" took on new life, as artists, filmmakers, and designers consciously appropriated these "bad objects" of the past, remixing and revaluing yesterday's detritus.

In the basement, the dust and must of detritus.

Scandinavian artist Magnusson uses humor and a light touch to encourage people (starting around age 65) to begin weeding out the detritus of their lives so that their children don’t have the thankless job of disposing of things after the person’s death.

Wright recalls how, as a child, he would play in the sewer, where he would spend hours fashioning all manner of detritus into toys.

Those jets then shot through the material that had been thrown out, and helped formed the post-fight detritus that can be seen spread across the universe.

And yet I remember seeing it, hung on the end of a long rack of shirts—Bar Mitzvah giveaways and Mets Free Shirt Friday detritus and corporate fun-run handouts and the like—in my local Goodwill.

But one day Pacarro spotted something particularly surprising in the beach detritus: a toothbrush.

The detritus comes from the many kits the outreach workers hand out every day and looks, from a distance, like 100,000 Christmas crackers have been pulled, their contents disgorged.

The fascination with obscure detritus extended to an eclectic soundtrack including falsetto-voiced ukulele virtuoso Tiny Tim, and strategically deployed B-roll stock footage breaking up the animation with snippets of live action.

The university on Wednesday asked government departments for help removing “dangerous materials” from the site, which is littered with rotting waste and detritus of the siege, urging authorities to take a “humane” approach.

Tove Lo uses dark-rimmed pop to explore our bodies and the elation and detritus created when we bring them together.

And if you want to rule over the detritus that’s left behind, you’re going to need something that’s not only practical, but also stylish.