cinder block

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The bear was eventually hit with a dart and fell asleep on top of a cinder block wall dividing two properties, its body straddling either side.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

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

The rats now commenced to dig busily at the dirt on top of and around Mrs. Frisby’s cinder block.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien