cinders

Example Sentences

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At 91, he never imagined starting his life over again in tiny rented apartments, with decades of memories in cinders.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 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

Leonard tried but couldn’t leave Lahaina in his Jeep, so he scrambled to the ocean and hid behind the seawall for hours, dodging hot ash and cinders blowing everywhere.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2023

Eric and the boy I thought was named Ben gathered broken branches of driftwood from the drier piles against the forest edge, and soon had a teepee-shaped construction built atop the old cinders.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer