ashes

Example Sentences

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Tsang said that "some remains have already been reduced to ashes" and that it was possible that some of the people reported missing will not be recovered.

From Barron's

Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war.

From Barron's

Three people have been arrested and charged in an investigation into missing ashes at a funeral directors.

From BBC

Sporting Times journalist Reginald Shirley Brooks wrote a satirical article stating that English cricket had died and "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia".

From Barron's

If Gaza ever rises from the ashes, he doesn't expect to be around to see it.

From BBC