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cinders
noun as in dust
noun as in embers
Weak matches
Example Sentences
I was determined for this to happen, but his mother thwarted my efforts and had him burnt to cinders in the US instead.
I have had broken bricks and cinders put down for them to stand on, and thus lifted them out of the mud.
The cinders fell together with a crumbling sound, and a greyness crept into their glowing depths.
She was indeed browning the coffee with a vengeance; she was burning it black—fairly to cinders.
Red-hot cinders he highly relished, though in obtaining them he frequently singed off his moustaches.
The live cinders from the firebox went up the chimney all night, and fell in showers on deck.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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