cinders
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When he was about Theodore’s age, Read lost his grandmother in a fire and has long been haunted by the memory of walking through her house in cinders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 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
Eric and the boy I thought was named Ben gathered broken branches of driftwood from the drier piles against the forest edge, and soon had a teepee-shaped construction built atop the old cinders.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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