CINDER in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for CINDER, such as:

1. The old man began to rake more cinders together.
2. I stirred up the cinders, and fetched a scuttleful myself.
3. This material is variously termed ash, clinker, cinders or slag.
4. His mother gave him a cake made with water and baked in the cinders, and with it a bottle of sour beer.
5. He sat propped up in the bed by pillows and the little colour in his puffy cheeks made them resemble warm cinders.

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cinder
 n.  partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct; hot coal without flame
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  He had been thrown by the fellow's machine lightly on the cinder path and his spectacles had been broken in three pieces and some of the grit of the cinders had gone into his mouth.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In EVELINE
3  There was hair upon the end, which blazed and shrunk into a light cinder, and, caught by the air, whirled up the chimney.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
4  Athos took the letter from the hands of d'Artagnan, approached the lamp, set fire to the paper, and did not let go till it was reduced to a cinder.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 48 A FAMILY AFFAIR
5  The depot had not been rebuilt since the burning of the city and they alighted amid cinders and mud a few yards above the blackened ruins which marked the site.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  I was tired of school, tired of winter clothes, of the rutted streets, of the dirty drifts and the piles of cinders that had lain in the yards so long.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
7  The growing piles of ashes and cinders in the back yards were the only evidence that the wasteful, consuming process of life went on at all.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
8  Little by little the scene grew plain: towering, black buildings here and there, long rows of shops and sheds, little railways branching everywhere, bare gray cinders underfoot and oceans of billowing black smoke above.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
9  OLD JACK raked the cinders together with a piece of cardboard and spread them judiciously over the whitening dome of coals.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
10  The old man began to rake more cinders together.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
11  He sat propped up in the bed by pillows and the little colour in his puffy cheeks made them resemble warm cinders.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
12  When she opened her eyes in the morning it was because a young housemaid had come into her room to light the fire and was kneeling on the hearth-rug raking out the cinders noisily.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  His mother gave him a cake made with water and baked in the cinders, and with it a bottle of sour beer.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE GOLDEN GOOSE
14  At length the cook took him into his service, and said he might carry wood and water, and rake the cinders together.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In IRON HANS
15  I stirred up the cinders, and fetched a scuttleful myself.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence:
1  Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red.
2  This material is variously termed ash, clinker, cinders or slag.