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
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
