cinders

Example Sentences

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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

They’d come together and some of them would go out, like the cinders of sparklers.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein