cinder block

Example Sentences

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The daughter of a traveling salesman, Flores grew up modestly in the cinder block hills of Catia, a hardscrabble district of western Caracas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

There, the boys frolic and dream amid cinder block walls.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024

Some of the footage showed the Beach refugee camp, an area of squat, tightly packed cinder block houses, with washing hanging outside.

From Reuters • Nov. 27, 2023

When I was in third grade, our survival drills required us to sit with our little faces pressed against the pastel cinder block walls of our school hallway to contemplate the nuclear apocalypse.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2023

I didn’t know if he meant a block of ice, or a cinder block, but he said block and that an Uncle Q owns it.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi