cinder
IPA: sˈɪndɝ
noun
- Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.
- An ember.
- Slag from a metal furnace.
- (dated, colloquial) Any strong stimulant added to tea, soda water, etc.
- A river in Alaska.
- A female given name
verb
- (transitive) To reduce to cinders.
- (transitive) To cover with cinders.
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Examples of "cinder" in Sentences
- She cleaned out cinders of coal.
- Cinder Cone and the Fantastic Lava Beds.
- Cinder cone on the flanks of Mount Etna, Sicily.
- The volcano is surrounded by maars and cinder cones.
- To dislodge the mail cinder blocks had to be removed.
- Cinder cones dot the landscape of the Snake River Plain.
- She is dormant in the ember, in the cinders, in the flame.
- The slopes of the volcano complex have numerous cinder cones.
- A steep road leaves the trail to the site of the Cinder Mine.
- It is like the fire during night or even the cinder in the cold.
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