How to Use cinder block in a Sentence

cinder block

noun

• One of the suspects also threw a large rock or cinder block at Nerander.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2024
• As my father continued to eat his breakfast, a strange reddish-colored horse appeared outside, dragging a cinder block on a lead line across the driveway.
  — Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
• What remained was a flattened wasteland of scattered cinder blocks, twisted rebar, and slabs of concrete jutting out of debris at awkward angles.
  — Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
• Cars on cinder blocks in the yards, pop-up tents in the driveways.
  — Wes Moore, TIME.com, 17 Dec. 2016
• The next morning, the girl's body was found near a cinder block wall about 100 yards from the stop.
  — Taylor Romine, CNN, 10 Aug. 2022
• At one point, Denny was hit on the head with a cinder block.
  — Kerry Picket, Washington Examiner, 9 July 2020
• Hudson said his house was saved by a cinder block wall that stopped the flames.
  — NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
• The truck was found on cinder blocks with its six tires missing.
  — cleveland.com, 12 July 2019
• Pick up the rope and pull the cinder block toward you with a hand-over-hand movement.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2020
• Pieces of cinder block were embedded in the back of his head.
  — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 19 Apr. 2020
• For now, many are digging in, one cinder block at a time.
  — Washington Post, 19 July 2021
• Take all the books from your plank and cinder block shelves and put them in boxes in your U-Haul van.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 13 July 2022
• All that was left were pieces of cinder block strewn on the ground and a view of the devastation.
  — Ella Torres, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2020
• Grayson then went to the parking lot and destroyed the male victim’s car with a cinder block.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 23 Aug. 2021
• The farmhouse is empty and the little shop made of cinder blocks feels derelict.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
• The large, green cinder block building looks more like a school gym than a restaurant.
  — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 19 Sep. 2017
• Kicked away at a cinder block from his downhill stance.
  — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2022
• For example, there was a cinder block beam sticking out of one side of the room.
  — Allison Duncan, House Beautiful, 2 Nov. 2022
• White beadboard capped the roof, its brim shading a front porch set on cinder blocks.
  — Jeff Sharlet, Harpers Magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• Directly across the street from the church was a cinder block building known as God’s Garage.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2022
• Even some errant cinder blocks on the ground were overrun with fake rats.
  — Fahima Haque, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2019
• Family said there was a cinder block on the gas pedal and his phone and wallet in the car.
  — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• Chain-link fences have been replaced with cinder block walls.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
• The dirt includes chunks of tar paper, cinder blocks and pieces of metal.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
• The men threw a cinder block through the backdoor of the home, located in the 9700 block of Seatonville Road, and entered it, police say.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 22 July 2019
• Nearby is a trailer where on a recent day, a cinder block was propped up against the door.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
• The outside of the house is built with cinder blocks, giving it a sturdy, yet slightly rough-around-the edges look.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 25 Apr. 2018
• Many houses had been replaced with cinder blocks, nuts and bolts to hoist up the highway.
  — Robert Samuels, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2019
• The coffee table was just a stylish slab of wood resting on cinder blocks.
  — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• The cell was made of cinder blocks and a metal door installed in reverse so it could not be opened from the inside.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024