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cinder

[sin-der] / ˈsɪn dər /
NOUN
hot ash
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After the crocodile ate a bird that had flown in, staff moved the reptile outside and used cinder blocks to weigh down the grate keeping it closed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The bear was eventually hit with a dart and fell asleep on top of a cinder block wall dividing two properties, its body straddling either side.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

Beneath moss-covered cinder blocks, dilapidated stone markers, and a handful of headstones, more than 200 children who died in state custody between the 1870s and 1930s are buried.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026

His throne room is made of cinder blocks and has a dirt floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

The rats now commenced to dig busily at the dirt on top of and around Mrs. Frisby’s cinder block.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

She walked its wall-less rooms, cinders crunching beneath her feet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 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

As cinders rained around her, the woman tried to flag down people driving past for a ride.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

Clare wept for Captain, for the cinders and blue-blues and glass caps and crying kits and feather whites.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman


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