: a hollow rectangular building block made of cement and coal cinders
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The cinder block building housing animals for adoption is unasuming and undetectable from main roads, including nearby Old 56 Highway.—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2026 The whole project began when Patti and Bill Tullar fell in love with Grand Rivers, Kentucky, and put down roots in 1975 by buying a six-room cinder block motel.—Chelsea Brasted, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026 The investigator got on her knees and noticed that the white paint on one cinder block in the partition was less glossy than the paint on the others.—James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 My calves turned into dense, heavy cinder blocks.—Dimity McDowell, Time, 24 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cinder block