cinder block
Example Sentences
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Residents resorted to burying the bodies just outside school grounds; more than 20 graves run parallel to the school’s outer wall, each marked with a broken cinder block.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
The daughter of a traveling salesman, Flores grew up modestly in the cinder block hills of Catia, a hardscrabble district of western Caracas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
Some of the footage showed the Beach refugee camp, an area of squat, tightly packed cinder block houses, with washing hanging outside.
From Reuters ● Nov. 27, 2023
When I was in third grade, our survival drills required us to sit with our little faces pressed against the pastel cinder block walls of our school hallway to contemplate the nuclear apocalypse.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2023
The stores them-selves had fared little better: it was a single-story building with a flat roof, and bare cinder block was visible in places.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
