cinder
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“The industry was created 60 or 70 years ago with chicken wire and cinder blocks,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 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
His throne room is made of cinder blocks and has a dirt floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
It prompted me to use cinder blocks as a form of sculpture and think about what kind of modern-day ruins we pass by.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025
I missed the snake, but my next cinder hit the white spot on old T.R.’s rump.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
At 91, he never imagined starting his life over again in tiny rented apartments, with decades of memories in cinders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 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
Leonard tried but couldn’t leave Lahaina in his Jeep, so he scrambled to the ocean and hid behind the seawall for hours, dodging hot ash and cinders blowing everywhere.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
Huge orange gouts of fire unfurled their banners in that hellish wind, the logs hissing and cracking, glowing cinders rising on the smoke to float away into the dark like so many newborn fireflies.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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