cinder
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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
After they knocked on the wall and heard knocking back, officers cut into Brewjee’s wall and uncovered only cinder block and cement, according to police.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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
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 and another nun, named Sister E. R., drove Sister M. E. in a Land Rover to the town of Bumba, a sprawl of cinder blocks and wooden shacks that huddles beside the Congo River.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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, the woman tried to flag down people driving past for a ride.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
Hot cinders bounced onto the car that had run into them and settled in, smoldering on its surface.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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