cinders
Example Sentences
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Robinson said he didn’t come to sift the cinders, not today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 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
He hid behind a seawall for hours, the wind blowing hot ash and cinders over him.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
“Gawk at a bunch of implements in the Montezuma railroad yard with all those cinders underfoot?”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
