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
Video of the rescue posted by the police department shows the Salinas Fire Department breaking down the wall and finding cinder block behind it.
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
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
The walls are paneled with dark wood instead of cinder blocks.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
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
He hid behind a seawall for hours, the wind blowing hot ash and cinders over him.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
It bedded itself down in sleepy pink-grey cinders and a smoke plume blew over it, rising and waving slowly back and forth in the sky.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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