ashes
Example Sentences
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Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Darnold proved success in football, like life, is not always linear.
From Los Angeles Times
Radio DJ Edith Bowman has made a tearful plea for a suitcase containing some of her grandfather's ashes to be returned.
From BBC
“They took my ID. They took my medication. They took my tent. They took all my clothes and blankets. They took my parents’ ashes,” Varghese said.
From Los Angeles Times
The mark is made with the moistened ashes of palms that were burned after the previous year’s Palm Sunday.
She insists the ashes should remain in the house where her father lived and died.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
