How to Use ash in a Sentence

ash

noun

• The ash bucket is small compared to the size of the grill.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 24 July 2023
• All the equipment, as well as the floor, is torched and covered in ash.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2023
• Now, much of what was left of that heritage has turned to ash.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023
• From a big and roomy cardboard box to a handful of ash.
  — Martin Aitken, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• Take an ash brown base, and coat the ends in a rich golden copper.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2023
• Among the redbuds and silver maples that fringed the hillsides, the light turned the color of ash.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
• Dust, dirt, ash, and soot can build up over time due to constant use.
  — House Beautiful, 7 Apr. 2023
• Large chunks of ash littered the yard of 67-year-old Laurel McAfee’s home.
  — oregonlive, 19 July 2023
• The cloud is likely a mix of ash and steam from the current eruptions at the volcano.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
• The day after the fire, when the air was still heavy with smoke and ash, Cottrell showed up at the clinic to help.
  — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
• The ash hardwood floors were made from trees on the estate, and the bricks were fired on the property.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2024
• Then, the sight: a corpse, charred black, lying in the middle of street, its bones and feet sticking out of the pile of ash.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
• His roof and gutters had been clogged with ash and debris.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Enjoy the warmth and ambiance of a crackling fire without all the smoke and ash.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2023
• Most of the homes were ash and rubble, some marked only by concrete steps to nowhere.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• On Wednesday, the parents and their three girls returned to a pile of ash and rubble.
  — Joe Sutton, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024
• It’s made from solid ash tree wood, with tons of space for your phone, glasses, tablets, and more.
  — Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
• When the sky cleared, the survivors trudged through a thick layer of ash to get to the small inflatable docked on the jetty.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 13 July 2023
• There was a photo of Daria in the middle of a sea of volcanic ash, kneeling over a puny tree.
  — Lara Vapnyar, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Over the next four days, three-quarters of the city crumbles into rubble and ash.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• The mayor said Duke Energy has agreed to remove the coal ash.
  — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 25 Apr. 2024
• Fires leave heavy ash, dust and harmful chemicals, the tip sheet warns.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2023
• Others learned that their houses had turned to ash and debris.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 23 Aug. 2023
• More than 2 billion tons of ash have been disposed in the United States in landfills.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• But all of the residents in towns strung along the lake’s southern edge know the resulting ash as black snow.
  — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
• Residents here say the wind blew acrid smoke into their homes and coated their cars with a fine ash.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• Its bowl is lockable to stay in place while cooking, and there’s a removable ash tray for easy cleanup.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2023
• After fires, toxic ash and dust that has settled on the ground can be stirred back up into the air months later.
  — Joshua Partlow, Scott Wilson and Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
• The tale was recalled on a papyrus scroll buried under volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 1 May 2024
• The rule issued on April 25 forces owners to safely close inactive coal ash ponds and clean up contamination.
  — Chris Carlson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024