How to Use cinder in a Sentence

cinder

noun

• Cinders from the campfire floated through the air.
• From the outside, the home looks like it's made out of cinder blocks and steel.
  — Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 3 Oct. 2016
• Saved From the ashes of last night’s fire, Arrange the cinders among the sticks.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 17 May 2018
• Instead, the two young men shot up in a cinder-block boathouse at the edge of the Klamers’ backyard.
  — Rosa Goldensohn, New York Times, 25 May 2018
• The place where one home stood was nothing but cinder blocks and a bald patch of earth.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• The next morning, a cinder-block wall near their garage had been knocked over.
  — Nina Shapiro, The Seattle Times, 7 Apr. 2018
• There is one oak whose trunk has grown around cinder blocks.
  — Imani Perry, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022
• Kaycee and Leroy move on to the next task, using hammers to break open cinder blocks to find a key.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2021
• In a small cinder-block house not far from one of the toxic ponds, a man is dying.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 18 May 2018
• Some of its homes are made of cinder blocks, while others are tin shacks.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2021
• On some teams, that would be a giant cinder block around his neck.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 8 May 2017
• West may be torching it all, only to rise again from the cinder.
  — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2022
• The star’s surface shrinks down and there’s a shell around this cinder that is burning, says van Belle.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Smooth, shiny flows known as pāhoehoe and the cinder or clinker-like kind called ‘A‘ā.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
• One local painter tossed a cinder block at the Gap’s plate-glass window, but failed to break through.
  — Jeremiah Moss, Longreads, 24 July 2017
• There is, in everyone, some small cinder of truth that never sees the light of day.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2021
• Rocks and cinder blocks have been placed on the roof to keep it from blowing off completely.
  — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2022
• Kelz goes for Tori and then starts crushing the cinder blocks with a sledgehammer.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• The route shoveled out of crunchy cinders and soft black sand traces the ragged hem of a petrified magma skirt.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 June 2018
• Donuts, coffee and apple cinder will be served in the Parish Life Center.
  — Post-Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• After a mile the sandy stream bed squeezes between towers of black cinders.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 28 June 2018
• The light, porous cinders that put a roll and crunch in your step on the mountain trail that leads to Crater Lake belie the site’s fiery origins.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 27 June 2019
• The station’s crew, which was supposed to be on the air, had to seek shelter in a cinder-block hallway as the twister passed overhead.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• The Flora-Bama had been reduced to a cinder-block nub of its former self.
  — al, 17 Nov. 2019
• Vaulting the ceiling revealed that cinder blocks met the roof line instead of the fireplace bricks.
  — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Nov. 2021
• A dog was rescued from the Longview Lake shoreline Friday after he was found chained to a cinder block.
  — Tony Rizzo, kansascity.com, 1 May 2017
• In the final minute, both teams pick up the pace, throwing cinder blocks everywhere.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• Remains are stacked in cinder-block holes five stories high.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
• The new venue had a cinder track around it to accommodate a football field comfortably.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• This bamboo pajama set is available in three colors: desert sand, cinder, and asphalt.
  — Erica Reagle, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2023

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