ashes

Example Sentences

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To preserve the evidence, officers erected a scene tent and created a grid of 50cm squares, allowing them to collect every piece of bone they could identify in the ashes.

From BBC

After a memorial service in France and a Cuban state funeral, his ashes were interred in Havana.

From The Wall Street Journal

The fire did not burn the wood of the boat, though it smoked—but a rope, Christopher saw, had burned instantly to ashes.

From Literature

“It was like a rock star rising from the ashes. You could literally feel the theater vibrating.”

From Los Angeles Times

His throat was dry as ashes, but he swallowed down a gulp.

From Literature