cinder track

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noun

a track covered with small cinders, for use in running races.

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Origin of cinder track

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby cinder track

cinder concrete, cinder cone, cinder dick, Cinderella, cinder patch, cinder track, Cindy, cine, cineangiography, cineaste, cine camera

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How to use cinder track in a sentence

If you answered nine or more, you may have won a SONY Betamax and an eight-track operating system.
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Workers built a temporary rail track through the city to move the statue in a process that took three days.
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I was there to track down the family of one of the most notorious defectors in Cuban history.
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It looks like Amazon is on track to get additional Pentagon contracts as well.
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Its inclusion in Record of the Year is on track with the recent trend of all nominees being chart-toppers.
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Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
We are so many around here that you'll have to get paper and pencil and mark us down to keep track of how many.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
The print of steel-rimmed hoofs showed in the soft loam as plainly as a moccasin-track in virgin snow.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Track of the count may be kept by placing a mark for each leukocyte in its appropriate column, ruled upon paper.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

British Dictionary definitions for cinder track

cinder track

noun

a racetrack covered with fine cinders

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cinder track

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