cinder block

Example Sentences

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He stood in disbelief Saturday as he surveyed the lot where he’d lived for 20 years, twisted debris of cinder blocks and mangled wood siding scattered across where his home once stood.

From Seattle Times

While Bruce’s Hulk is a cinder block of a man — or as Maslany put it, “a roided-out gym maniac, to such a cartoonish degree” — Jen’s transformation, triggered by anger, looks different.

From New York Times

“That’s an honor, is all I can say,” said Brenda Davis, a dock worker at Brunswick’s busy seaport who lives on Albany Street along a stretch of modest brick and cinder block homes.

From Seattle Times

The home of Lurain Noble was uprooted in the flood, she said near a pile of cinder blocks where her home once stood.

From Washington Post

She said they lived in a small home on a single row of cinder blocks near a pair of creeks, both normally “just ankle-deep.”

From Washington Post