How to Use cinder in a Sentence

cinder

noun

• Cinders from the campfire floated through the air.
• On some teams, that would be a giant cinder block around his neck.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 8 May 2017
• Some of its homes are made of cinder blocks, while others are tin shacks.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2021
• The next morning, a cinder-block wall near their garage had been knocked over.
  — Nina Shapiro, The Seattle Times, 7 Apr. 2018
• From the outside, the home looks like it's made out of cinder blocks and steel.
  — Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 3 Oct. 2016
• The place where one home stood was nothing but cinder blocks and a bald patch of earth.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• West may be torching it all, only to rise again from the cinder.
  — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2022
• My back felt like a cinder, glowing red inside.
  — Kinza Shenn, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 May 2024
• 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
• After a mile the sandy stream bed squeezes between towers of black cinders.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 28 June 2018
• 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
• There is, in everyone, some small cinder of truth that never sees the light of day.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2021
• Red-orange cinders dropped across the skylight, followed by bursts of flame.
  — Sarah Hepola, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
• Smooth, shiny flows known as pāhoehoe and the cinder or clinker-like kind called ‘A‘ā.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 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
• Jesse Owens ran on a cinder track and used a garden tool to dig holes to place his feet at the start of a race.
  — Emily Giambalvo, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• 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
• 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 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
• White lives in a beige cottage resting on cinder blocks and surrounded by a chain-link fence.
  — The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• The now dormant volcanic range contains cinder and lava domes, as well as craters.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• Kelz goes for Tori and then starts crushing the cinder blocks with a sledgehammer.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• In the final minute, both teams pick up the pace, throwing cinder blocks everywhere.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Saved From the ashes of last night’s fire, Arrange the cinders among the sticks.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 17 May 2018
• Luquin walked the grounds, discussing post-eruption plans to line an old cinder quarry pit to turn it into a pond for fish.
  — Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 20 May 2018
• Vaulting the ceiling revealed that cinder blocks met the roof line instead of the fireplace bricks.
  — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Nov. 2021
• Passersby can still see relics of the old farming town, notably a one-cell cinder-block jail all alone in an overgrown field.
  — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2020
• The human toll will grow in the next few days and thousands of homes are and will be destroyed before the last cinder is snuffed out.
  — Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025
• Pahoehoe is a type of lava flow that looks like thick syrup or ropes; other flows have been a'a', which is more of a cinder.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 29 May 2018