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.
An hour later the Chinook descended steeply amid twisted, cindery peaks. From Wordnik.com. [Imperial Grunts] Reference
Wild gorse, myrtle, and stunted cedars rooted in cindery scree on the slopes. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
Sometimes these cindery surfaces undulate and take the appearance of black coils, as of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference
He stepped down to the ground, went along the cindery bed to the front of the train, stepping on the ends of the wooden ties. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
Dillon ignored him and walked over the wet cindery ground to the dark-grey body bags ranged side by side in a neat, military row. From Wordnik.com. [Civvies]
They went down a black cindery road between high walls and presently the guide said quietly, "Are you coming here to us, Mr. Aston?". From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
He left Gracja tied to a cindery tree trunk for a moment to stretch his legs, and went far enough to steal a look down at the tower. From Wordnik.com. [The Goblin Mirror]
The country through which we were travelling was covered with a cindery-looking volcanic tufa, and might be called “Katakaumena.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries] Reference
The surface was reddish-black, a thin cindery crust of polymerized organic material punctuated with countless holes and crevices like an enormous sponge. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Behind the fire engines, their hoses snaking over the cindery, puddled ground, police cars and a cordon of uniformed men kept the groups of survivors at a safe distance. From Wordnik.com. [Civvies]
The beard of flame diminished quickly; then the pile fell inwards with a soft, cindery sound, and sent a great tree of sparks upwards that leaned away and drifted downwind. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Flies]
The damp, yellow-brick schoolbuilding in its cindery grounds. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
Most of the maidens asleep on the young men's cindery shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantic City] Reference
"Aren't you afraid you'll get that pretty silk all cindery?" she asked. From Wordnik.com. [Ethel Morton's Enterprise] Reference
We devoured our cindery pilchards on fragrant cornbread, accompanied by white. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
It feels like an old volcano, cindery, with fire somewhere: -- a charming bride!. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
Somewhere beyond Rheims the wreck of a cindery village sprawled along a side road. From Wordnik.com. [The Happy Foreigner] Reference
"'Ere it is," said the little ferret-faced man, and stooped to pick up a cindery cube. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Space and Time] Reference
That pall of cindery powder made me think of what I had read of the destruction of Pompeii. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Worlds] Reference
In either case, a dark and cindery debris field is expected to develop around the impact point. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Spain Hit by Strike Over Austerity Measures] Reference
I am dreadfully cindery and black, Aunt Betty, so I am afraid you can't see at all what I look like. From Wordnik.com. [Three Little Cousins] Reference
Town was cutting out the hoof of a shaggy grey cart horse when his visitors entered the cindery blackness. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Days] Reference
The country through which we were travelling was covered with a cindery-looking volcanic tufa, and might be called. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864] Reference
Day after day, week after week, she trod the cindery beach, till at length a double motive edged every eager glance. From Wordnik.com. [The Piazza Tales] Reference
To unaccustomed eyes there is something forbidding and terrible about the dark and cindery appearance of volcanic tufa. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
His mother tried to quiet him, but he smiled his dead smile at her through his cindery eyes, shook his head and went on. From Wordnik.com. [In Our Town] Reference
It is entirely of these cindery fragments heaped up with marvellous rapidity round the orifice that the volcano itself is first formed. From Wordnik.com. [The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire] Reference
The cindery impact debris appears to be caught up in a cascade of turbulent swirls and eddies, which is literally ripping the cloud apart. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
OSPD lists "AA: n, pl. - s rough, cindery lava.". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2] Reference
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