cinder
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The next day, the grate and the cinder blocks were still there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 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
“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
Instead of going straight back to my room to read I went in the backyard, sat on one of the cinder blocks so I could think about everything.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
But as she wandered through the wreckage on Thursday, she stepped amid cinders left by the flames that had swarmed the land and erased the life she had built.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 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
“Here’s a sweet prospect!” muttered Jo, slamming the stove door open, and poking vigorously among the cinders.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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