Verb (used with object) : The highway department salted and cindered the icy roads. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : My neighbor began cindering as soon as the first snowflake fell. From Dictionary.com.
Besides, the cinders are a little too plentiful. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Long Portage] Reference
The cinders went on another ten feet and petered out. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
The flies hung over him like a cloud of black cinders. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
"Rocks and cinders were falling everywhere," he recalled. From Wordnik.com. [A Shaken City's Towering Inferno] Reference
McCarthy never says what happened to bring the world to cinders. From Wordnik.com. [On the Lost Highway] Reference
It was black cinders once, but now it was packed smooth and hard. From Wordnik.com. [Moving Day] Reference
He jumped down to the cinders, followed them to where they ended. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
I hold the cigar to a flame until it flowers into aromatic cinders. From Wordnik.com. [Early Thoughts on the Oedipus Complex] Reference
"Meanwhile," added Mr. Sherwood, rising, "I will go back to sifting cinders.". From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
The cinders were, at intervals, removed by serving-maids, and the flames replenished. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Mr. Sherwood, in overalls and an old cap, had been sifting cinders out behind the shed. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
During the eruption of Krakatoa, Batavia was buried deep in dust and ragged cinders of lava. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
John kept looking for the three mounds of black cinders as a landmark but couldn't find them. From Wordnik.com. [The Palatski Man] Reference
"I say, fellows, are there any cinders on my necktie?" and he pretended to be very much exercised. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
The 2 men placing and tamping cinders averaged 16 cu.yds. of cinders per day, or 8 cu.yds. per man. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Piles were driven in the bottom and their heads cut to level and filled around with tamped cinders. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
The aggregates commonly used in making concrete are broken or crushed stone, gravel, slag and cinders. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
He again stirred the smouldering cinders with his foot, and, turning about, advanced to close the door. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Houses not unfrequently take fire from cinders falling between the joints of the outer and inner hearths. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference
She edged her car onto the main road still slick without a layer of sand and cinders. From Wordnik.com. [Sisters] Reference
The house now began to rock violently to and fro; while outside, stones and cinders were falling in showers. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
It was used by being first soaked in water and drawn over pieces of wood, boxes, or large cinders even, to give shape. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
That metamorphosis had created a spot of hope and joy in the middle of the Depression, one crafted out of cinders and ash. From Wordnik.com. [Icon of a Fair, a Borough, the World] Reference
These bubbles rose from a great depth, and each, on bursting, which it did with a feeble report, threw out sand and cinders. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
"The live coal must be drawn to the front, ma'am, gently, so as not to let any cinders go into the dripping-tin," said Mary. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Best of all he liked to sit by the hearth and watch the glowing cinders, so they called him Boots, and thought little of him. From Wordnik.com. [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference
The fumes emitted are sometimes gray, sometimes orange; and the matters ejected are cinders, dross, and spherical masses of stone. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
After I reached the brickyard I vomited fully a pint of cinders which I had swallowed while coming through that awful stream of water. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
She hears things, the creaking of unseen wood, and creatures that slither dryly through trees murmuring that everything ends in cinders. From Wordnik.com. [The Impulse of Breathing] Reference
Hot cinders and pieces of metal may become so deeply lodged in the surface of the eye that it is necessary to dig them out with a needle. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
The water which boiled in this crater was reddish, and the cinders, which covered the sea all round the island, were of a chocolate colour. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
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