ash heap
noun
a pile of ashes and often also other garbage; dustheap.
ash heaps
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pluralof ash heap.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The fire could be capricious, reducing a row of houses to ash heaps but leaving an adjacent one intact.
From Washington Times ● May 17, 2020
The trees are long gone, replaced by vulgar mansions and the wasteland of ash heaps next to which poor George and Myrtle Wilson live, "contiguous to absolutely nothing".
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2013
As we neared the stadium, first Arthur Ashe Stadium crawled into view, then the gaudy tents for Cirque du Soleil, a non-sequitur against sooty Northern Boulevard, the very site of Fitzgerald’s forsaken ash heaps in .
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2013
In these ash heaps lay a lost and delightful world, the world of my childhood, the world of sweet and irresponsible days at Qunu and Mqhekezweni.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Among the tin cans and ash heaps the children of the 94 Point were playing.
From At the Crossroads by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
