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After the crocodile ate a bird that had flown in, staff moved the reptile outside and used cinder blocks to weigh down the grate keeping it closed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 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

The daughter of a traveling salesman, Flores grew up modestly in the cinder block hills of Catia, a hardscrabble district of western Caracas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

It was later knocked down and in the demolition pictures, the way the cinder blocks were on the floor looked like a sculptural painting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025

I walked slowly up a cinder path between drab gray barracks.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

When he was about Theodore’s age, Read lost his grandmother in a fire and has long been haunted by the memory of walking through her house in cinders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 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

As cinders rained around her, she tried to flag down people driving past to get a ride out while staying on the line with the dispatcher.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

I knelt on the ground and pressed my hands into the cinders, wanting so badly to pull my father free.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins