cinders
Example Sentences
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“If we have to take helicopters out of an area and the wind catches one of those cinders in that area and lifts it up, we could ignite a whole other area,” he added.
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
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
They’d come together and some of them would go out, like the cinders of sparklers.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
