cinder

Example Sentences

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In Los Angeles, alas, we were, last spring, a city of cinders.

From Los Angeles Times

Women began spreading their blankets on the hard cinder ground.

From Literature

“Gawk at a bunch of implements in the Montezuma railroad yard with all those cinders underfoot?”

From Literature

His throne room is made of cinder blocks and has a dirt floor.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the parking lot outside Brother’s Keeper, hamburgers and hot dogs sizzled on the grill, and rice and beans cooked in big pots over a fire pit built with cinder blocks.

From Literature