cinder
noun
cin·der
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Definition of cinder
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Other Words from cinder
cindery
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adjective
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adjective
Examples of cinder in a Sentence
Cinders from the campfire floated through the air.
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During their active phases, cinder-cone volcanoes live fast and furious. — Mare Czinar, azcentral, "This peaceful Flagstaff hike belies its explosive origins," 27 June 2019 An unmarked dirt road spurs off the highway, running past cinder-block shacks, some with rebar sprouting from unfinished roofs. — Washington Post, "Migrants risk it all seeking asylum. The answer in court is almost always ‘no.’," 24 July 2019 Bulldozers seemed pointed at the cinder-block structure. — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, "A shrine to conjunto music on San Antonio’s West Side will rise again," 13 July 2019 In recent years, survivors have banded together, calling themselves the White House Boys, after the cinder-block building where brutal beatings were administered. — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, "In ‘The Nickel Boys,’ Colson Whitehead Continues to Make a Classic American Genre His Own," 11 July 2019 By 2007 one in every 100 adults was typically housed in an isolated cinder-block compound surrounded by barbed wire. — The Economist, "A jail in Denver offers some lessons for criminal-justice reformers," 28 June 2019 In September, the people in Kamarata pulled about 60 ounces of it from the big hole that was dug between cinder-block shanties, a stone’s throw from the office of Mr. Sandoval, the captain. — Kejal Vyas |, WSJ, "Desperate Venezuelans Dig Up Paradise in Search of Gold," 20 Nov. 2018 From faces and hearts on large buildings' inner pillars to a hat on a curbside fire hydrant, to a robot, haloed in pink, flashing a peace sign from a cinder-block wall, his images show a vast city-scape of possibility. — Robert Allen, Detroit Free Press, "4,000 miles of Detroit art: A man with a camera, a bicycle and a goal," 5 July 2018 Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation have been pushing for the funding needed to build the new complex since taking a tour of the old cinder-block buildings in early 2016. — Susan Montoya Bryan, The Seattle Times, "Nuclear security agency begins work on New Mexico complex," 2 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cinder.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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cinder
noun
English Language Learners Definition of cinder
: a very small piece of burned material (such as wood or coal)
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cinder
noun
cin·der
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