cinder block
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Residents resorted to burying the bodies just outside school grounds; more than 20 graves run parallel to the school’s outer wall, each marked with a broken cinder block.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 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
There, the boys frolic and dream amid cinder block walls.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
Some of the footage showed the Beach refugee camp, an area of squat, tightly packed cinder block houses, with washing hanging outside.
From Reuters ● Nov. 27, 2023
The colt’s body, built low to the ground, had all the properties of a cinder block.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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