cinder

That record was set on a cinder track, considered the best surface at the time.

With his first homer of the season, he felt like a few cinder blocks were removed from his shoulders.

“They’re just cinders, Your Highness. You can pretty yourself up later. For now, let’s deal with the boys, okay?”

“He broke a rule. It sounded like they were saying that he put cinder blocks in the water at the end of the pier. Why would he do that?”

Burning characters to cinders does little but to flatten colonialism into a fiery spectacle.