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

As cinders rained around her, the woman tried to flag down people driving past for a ride.

From Washington Times • Oct. 13, 2023

It bedded itself down in sleepy pink-grey cinders and a smoke plume blew over it, rising and waving slowly back and forth in the sky.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury