cinder block
Example Sentences
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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 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
There, the boys frolic and dream amid cinder block walls.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
Some of the footage showed the Beach refugee camp, an area of squat, tightly packed cinder block houses, with washing hanging outside.
From Reuters ● Nov. 27, 2023
I didn’t know if he meant a block of ice, or a cinder block, but he said block and that an Uncle Q owns it.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
