cinders

Example Sentences

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But as she wandered through the wreckage on Thursday, she stepped amid cinders left by the flames that had swarmed the land and erased the life she had built.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 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

Clare wept for Captain, for the cinders and blue-blues and glass caps and crying kits and feather whites.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman