cinder
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“The industry was created 60 or 70 years ago with chicken wire and cinder blocks,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Beneath moss-covered cinder blocks, dilapidated stone markers, and a handful of headstones, more than 200 children who died in state custody between the 1870s and 1930s are buried.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
They listen to playlists while pulling carts loaded with cinder blocks: yacht rock for mornings, Jock Jam in the afternoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
He has stacked some cinder blocks to anchor iron rods for holding up a sheet, which is meant to serve as a roof.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
He climbed up on the cinder block ahead of me.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
Life savings, memories and livelihoods: all cinders within hours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
"I've been relieved from the burden of my stuff because it's all in cinders."
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
Burning characters to cinders does little but to flatten colonialism into a fiery spectacle.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2024
He hid behind a seawall for hours, the wind blowing hot ash and cinders over him.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
Nat stood in the midst of the charred cinders that had been the little house.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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