cinder block
a concrete building block made with a cinder aggregate.
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How to use cinder block in a sentence
Instead, to avoid contracting the delta variant, he ended up locked in a “windowless, cinder block room” — his temporary office — attending most of his meetings via Zoom.
Workers are putting on pants to return to the office only to be on Zoom all day | Danielle Abril | September 27, 2021 | Washington PostThey regained consciousness a few seconds later, and a cinder block was thrown at the car and shattered the back window of their car inches away from their service dog, Wallace.
Non-binary person reports assault by Proud Boys near Portland | Kaela Roeder | September 25, 2021 | Washington BladeYou can also give tortoises a helping hand by creating a sheltered enclosure in your yard out of cinder blocks or an old trash can.
How to turn your garden into a tortoise sanctuary | Natalie Wallington | September 21, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThey connected several metal pipes to securely attach the car seat to the wheelchair and conducted weight tests using 55 pounds of cinder blocks to ensure that the mechanism could safely support a baby.
It is a very attractive apartment except for the rusted old car on cinder blocks in the hallway outside the bathroom.
Gene Weingarten: New York, from the bizarre to the truly bizarre | Gene Weingarten | June 3, 2021 | Washington Post
He and his wife and children shared a cinder-block house with a roof made of sheet metal and a dirt floor.
Today, one in five Cariocas, as Rio residents are known, live in shantytowns, piled high with raw brick and cinder-block homes.
The three of them shared a cinder-block shack on the beach in Puerto Rico.
At that moment, three or four shots rang out almost simultaneously, echoing throughout the cinder block building.
Amelie lives in a rural setting–an open field with cinder-block houses in various stages of construction.
He stood, pressed against the wall, the cold cinder block on his cheek, which felt like it might be bruised.
Makers | Cory Doctorow
British Dictionary definitions for cinder block
the usual US name for breeze block
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