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cinder

[sin-der] / ˈsɪn dər /
NOUN
hot ash
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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

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

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

The roof over the garage was flat, and he set up the tent there, securing it with books and a few cinder blocks.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

In Los Angeles, alas, we were, last spring, a city of cinders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026

"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

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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