Sentence examples for burning ash from inspiring English sources

According to an eyewitness, Pliny the Younger, writing 20 years after the event, the cloud reached nine miles in height (it resembled a fir tree, he said) and dropped burning ash upon the town.

"When you have heat rising, it causes winds that circulate and push burning ash up into the air in a convection current, and they can blow over into adjacent unburned forest," Ms. Reichelt said.

Most accounts of volcanic eruptions, including Pliny the Younger's eyewitness account of the eruption of Vesuvius (which killed his uncle, Pliny the Elder), concern themselves with the pyrotechnics of the eruption, the billowing clouds of smoke, molten lava or burning ash rolling down the slopes and, ultimately, the death toll.

One worker sprays the burning ash with a garden hose until it stops burning, while the others use metal poles and shovels to pull the smouldering ash out and place it on the palette of a forklift.

When his home in a town at the base of the volcano unexpectedly filled with burning ash in the middle of the night, he pulled his grandmother from the house despite suffering terrible burns himself.

According to Cheng et al, 'The operator by focusing his attention and whisking away the burning ash in a timely manner and giving advice on the intensity of stimulation was advising the participant not to let the points become uncomfortably hot'.

The fireball-throwing imp from the first game looked like a guy in a "Creature From the Black Lagoon" rubber suit, but while Doom 3's Imp is big and scary, moves fluidly and dissolves into burning ashes when it dies, it is still the same basic Imp.

Some critics found dark lyrics like "I dream in darkness, I sleep to die, erase the silence, erase my life, our burning ashes darken the day, a world of nothingness, blow me away" accompanied with "rumbling guitars" and a string section.

These last days, with the pace of arrivals so hectic, one corpse is often placed beside another, sometimes three and four at a time, strangers burning together, ashes to ashes and bones to bones.

When burning, say, "Ashes to ashes.

Systemax has done an alright job of raising CompUSA from the burning ashes that was the bankrupt brand, but it will be interesting to watch what happens with Circuit City.