cinder
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My friends and I were among the kids who occasionally did just that, and who, for fun, raced each other on that cinder track.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
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
Beneath moss-covered cinder blocks, dilapidated stone markers, and a handful of headstones, more than 200 children who died in state custody between the 1870s and 1930s are buried.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 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
If only the summer house were as warm as the cinder block house.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
But as she wandered through the wreckage on Thursday, she stepped amid cinders left by the flames that had swarmed the land and erased the life she had built.
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
As cinders rained around her, the woman tried to flag down people driving past for a ride.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
Nat stood in the midst of the charred cinders that had been the little house.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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