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ashes
noun as in powder remains after a fire
Example Sentences
Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war.
Three people have been arrested and charged in an investigation into missing ashes at a funeral directors.
“But answering letters is far less unpleasant than picking lentils out of ashes, so I shall do my best and try to be cheerful about it.”
Sporting Times journalist Reginald Shirley Brooks wrote a satirical article stating that English cricket had died and "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia".
If Gaza ever rises from the ashes, he doesn't expect to be around to see it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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