cinder
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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
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
The daughter of a traveling salesman, Flores grew up modestly in the cinder block hills of Catia, a hardscrabble district of western Caracas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 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 broke a rule. It sounded like they were saying that he put cinder blocks in the water at the end of the pier. Why would he do that?”
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
Life savings, memories and livelihoods: all cinders within hours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 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
Five firefighters who were protecting Pomonal sustained minor burns from cinders on Tuesday night when the fire changed direction and burnt over their truck, officials said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
I was buried alive in noise, and the heat and cinders stung my neck and legs and the bottoms of my feet.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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