cinder
Example Sentences
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“Vanish? Mayhem?” he muttered, packing the rotten fruit from the dump around his cinder mushrooms.
From Literature
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The daughter of a traveling salesman, Flores grew up modestly in the cinder block hills of Catia, a hardscrabble district of western Caracas.
In Los Angeles, alas, we were, last spring, a city of cinders.
From Los Angeles Times
Women began spreading their blankets on the hard cinder ground.
From Literature
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“Gawk at a bunch of implements in the Montezuma railroad yard with all those cinders underfoot?”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.