cinders

Example Sentences

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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

He hid behind a seawall for hours, the wind blowing hot ash and cinders over him.

From Washington Times • Aug. 11, 2023

“Gawk at a bunch of implements in the Montezuma railroad yard with all those cinders underfoot?”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck