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- noun Plural form of
ashfall .
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Examples
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A lot of ashfalls, lately, he thought, glad for the excuse to pull up the hood on his cloak.
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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Buildings were stained by countless, repetitive ashfalls.
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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Closer to the balcony, exotic trees with colorful yellow leaves gave shade and protected from ashfalls.
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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Like the rest of the city, the keeps were stained by countless years of ashfalls.
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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Like everything in the city, the wall had been stained black by countless years of ashfalls.
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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A lot of days with no food, nights spent in alleys during rain or ashfalls ...
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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The hot ashfalls had ended for the moment, but a ghostly red glow of drifted cinders tracked the dry streambed down the slope.
Firestorm L.A Graf 2000
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All the fossils date to the Miocene, eighteen to twenty million years ago, when a volcano called Kisingiri on the mainland erupted with heavy ashfalls.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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The ashfalls occurred for several weeks as the dry season gave way to the wet.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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This would create the picture-perfect layer cake seen in geology primers, with the oldest ashfalls on the bottom and the youngest on top.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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