Sentence examples for black cinder from inspiring English sources

Nearby is Cerro Negro, a big, black cinder cone that began erupting only in 1850, and quickly grew to more than 2,300 feet.

Although Ullmann gives the production many masterly touches — there is no Big Easy folderol here and almost no allegorical flimflammery — she has allowed Ralph Myers to lumber his set with an ungainly fire escape, which cramps the left side of the stage and inhibits important scenes played there, and with a sort of lumpish second story of mostly black cinder block.

Travelling down the mountain, past the dry olive groves and the parched earth that is Greece this summer, I hear her again: "Might I myself not melt in the end perhaps or burn, I do not mean burst into flames just bit by bit be charred to a black cinder, all this visible flesh".

"Jeanette and John and my husband John and I were in a boat searching for the old Tuckerton and Long Beach Island railroad,and he was sloshing around in the reeds in the water trying to find remnants, and all of a sudden he picked up a piece of black cinder," she said.

They imported six truckloads of black cinder from the Calico mines area near Barstow to simulate the dark sand, which was placed on a plastic sheet to separate it from the beach sand.

Eve Cone, a black cinder cone of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex, is one of the most famous symmetrical and best preserved cinder cones in Canada, reaching a height of 1740 m and a topographic prominence of 150 m.

We noticed on the trail that the fine black cinder-sand was gleaming.

Five minutes earlier, Phillips leaned against a black cinder-block wall beside the Mets' clubhouse and answered questions like a defense lawyer whose client had just berated the judge.

Her round face is unblemished, but her belly is darkened and her legs and feet are charred into black cinders.

In some cases the play with opposites is too simple, as in "Ash/Gray," in which you walk first into an enclosure paved with tightly packed white chalk sticks and then into one with its floor covered by black cinders.

Its deposits are rich in palagonite and red and black cinders, and grow progressively more iron-rich with decreasing age.