cinder
noun
a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
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
I wheel Brian over the cindery snow, easing him around the potholes.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
