cinder
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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
Beneath moss-covered cinder blocks, dilapidated stone markers, and a handful of headstones, more than 200 children who died in state custody between the 1870s and 1930s are buried.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 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
He has stacked some cinder blocks to anchor iron rods for holding up a sheet, which is meant to serve as a roof.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
I walked slowly up a cinder path between drab gray barracks.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
When he was about Theodore’s age, Read lost his grandmother in a fire and has long been haunted by the memory of walking through her house in cinders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
"I've been relieved from the burden of my stuff because it's all in cinders."
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
Burning characters to cinders does little but to flatten colonialism into a fiery spectacle.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2024
He hid behind a seawall for hours, the wind blowing hot ash and cinders over him.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
Smoke obscured the vision and cinders drifted into the house, into our beds, into our kitchen, into our food; and a tarlike smell was always in the air.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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