cinders

Example Sentences

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She walked its wall-less rooms, cinders crunching beneath her feet.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 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

As cinders rained around her, she tried to flag down people driving past to get a ride out while staying on the line with the dispatcher.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2023

Nat stood in the midst of the charred cinders that had been the little house.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare