cinder
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My friends and I were among the kids who occasionally did just that, and who, for fun, raced each other on that cinder track.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Residents resorted to burying the bodies just outside school grounds; more than 20 graves run parallel to the school’s outer wall, each marked with a broken cinder block.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 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
Instead of going straight back to my room to read I went in the backyard, sat on one of the cinder blocks so I could think about everything.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
She walked its wall-less rooms, cinders crunching beneath her feet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 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
Leonard tried but couldn’t leave Lahaina in his Jeep, so he scrambled to the ocean and hid behind the seawall for hours, dodging hot ash and cinders blowing everywhere.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
I told him about the cinders hitting my back, the smell of hot creosote, and the huge roar as the train straddled the rails above me.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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