cinders
Example Sentences
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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
He hid behind a seawall for hours, the wind blowing hot ash and cinders over him.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 11, 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
