Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling cinders; containing cinders, or composed of them; scoriaceous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective covered in
cinders
Etymologies
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Examples
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In neighboring Argentina the cindery cloud has closed roads, blanketed grazing pastures and a ski resort.
Chilean Volcanic Ash Causes Flight Disruptions in Australia 2011
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In neighboring Argentina the cindery cloud has closed roads, blanketed grazing pastures and a ski resort.
Chilean Volcanic Ash Causes Flight Disruptions in Australia 2011
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In neighboring Argentina the cindery cloud has closed roads, blanketed grazing pastures and a ski resort.
Chilean Volcanic Ash Causes Flight Disruptions in Australia 2011
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You are warned that some of the art from an alien spaceship has escaped; you are advised to keep watching the shadows; given a code of gestures; you glimpse video of Matt Smith which tantalisingly breaks up as he is in the middle of issuing vital instructions; underfoot you will feel the cindery rubble of a 21st-century crash site and the soft, matted straw from a place in the 19th-century.
That Day We Sang; The Crash of the Elysium; The Village Bike – review 2011
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In neighboring Argentina the cindery cloud has closed roads, blanketed grazing pastures and a ski resort.
Chilean Volcanic Ash Causes Flight Disruptions in Australia 2011
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In neighboring Argentina the cindery cloud has closed roads, blanketed grazing pastures and a ski resort.
Chilean Volcanic Ash Causes Flight Disruptions in Australia 2011
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In neighboring Argentina the cindery cloud has closed roads, blanketed grazing pastures and a ski resort.
Chilean Volcanic Ash Causes Flight Disruptions in Australia 2011
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Wild gorse, myrtle, and stunted cedars rooted in cindery scree on the slopes.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Wild gorse, myrtle, and stunted cedars rooted in cindery scree on the slopes.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Wild gorse, myrtle, and stunted cedars rooted in cindery scree on the slopes.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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