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

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

In Portland, Ore., a blaze shut down an on-ramp to the Steel Bridge for several days in March after campers tunneled through a cinder block wall and lit a campfire to stay warm.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2023

Today at lunch Tommy and the only other Mexican kid, Rene, walked over to where I was sitting, on a cinder block in the far corner of the yard.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña