cinder block

Example Sentences

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When she was 16, she helped her father build them a house, making cinder blocks and planing boards after school.

From Seattle Times

The fire burned through more than 2,000 buildings, leaving little more than cinder blocks, car husks and piles of ash behind.

From New York Times

He was inspired to invent these elders by contemplating the oddly textured cinder blocks of a dingbat apartment on 6th Avenue in Venice.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Reuters

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