cindery
- a word derived from cinder.
Example Sentences
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The swirling dust coated the bulbs in the light stanchions, making for a cindery darkness with the night now all the way in.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2019
SAT Tastes from 9 craft breweries and 1 cindery at 10 locations, 5-8 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2016
They are cindery lumps of inert matter, pummeled and squashed with what appears at first to be a paroxysm of gratuitous violence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The age of the bones was determined from radioactive dating of a layer of cindery volcanic debris near the fossils.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mirage-gray at the bottom of their granite canyons, the hot streets wavered in the sun, the car tops sizzled and glittered, and the dry, cindery dust blew into my eyes and down my throat.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
