Their line at present is simply that they had no knowledge of the Cetacea until the Norwegian coastguard sighted debris drifting from the east.

A year after the Chernobyl disaster sent a cloud of radioactive debris drifting across much of Western Europe, those European countries already committed to nuclear power are pushing ahead with their nuclear programs.

In an apparent second incident Brent Jett, the shuttle commander, said fellow astronaut Dan Burbank saw another piece of debris drifting from the payload bay.

There's always debris drifting in.

Since the mid-1990's, his interest in examining the alternative meanings of everyday things has led him to focus on the debris drifting to the Long Island Sound beach near his home on eastern Long Island, particularly the nondegradable consumer products coming from boats.

Her engine was in lousy condition, but even if it operated at full power, and even if she burned all that remained of her anti-iron fuel, Mere could only make herself into a cold piece of dead debris drifting in the Great Ship's wake.

In addition, they placed Mylar covers over two magnetic sensing units to guard against contaminating debris drifting into the telescope.

Look at what you can: the faint pattern of the girders, and above them the square configuration of the superstructure, delineated by the night glow of the sky, and the diaphanous cloud of debris drifting past as the current flowed from the south.

The tide was turning and he could see debris drifting downstream in the yellow afternoon light towards the river gate, a mere hundred yards downstream.

A two-mile crater had been smoothly scooped out of it, showing like a big blueblack rotted cavity in a silvery apple, debris drifting above it like a thin cloud of smoke.