The word 'cinder' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a small piece of partly burned coal or wood that has stopped giving off flames but still has combustible matter in it. Example: After the campfire had died down, we could still see glowing cinders scattered amongst the ashes.
Most could be repaired, but one seven-foot-long cascade of fruit and flowers was a cinder.
The only really high places would be volcanic cinder cones, and they would be spewing out huge amounts of water vapour which would, in turn, fall to the surface and form oceans that around the volcanoes.
They had been burnt to a cinder in the most violent eruption of mayhem in the city in years.Last week's riots in Lagos, the economic capital of one of the world's largest oil producers, began with a dispute between traders from Nigeria's two largest ethnic groups, the northern Hausas and the southern Yorubas, over control of a local food market.
Mountain Red Hill, once as barren as any of the island's cinder cones, is newly and distinctly green (see picture, taken from Green Mountain).Is it possible that the invaders are getting some help from climate change?
To reduce the risk of ambushes and fake checkpoints, the army has cut down ancient eucalyptus forests to their stumps, and burnt undergrowth to a cinder.
Just look at Mountain Red Hill, an impressive cinder cone that lies south-west of Green Mountain.
Some ethnic armies that have either not signed ceasefires with Myanmar's government or seen them break down have taken up arms alongside the Kokang.In a squat cinder-block hut on a narrow street on the outskirts of Lashio, a solidly built Palaung soldier with the Ta'ang National Liberation Army TNLAA) says he has just returned from Kokang.
Scientists are increasingly good at looking out for such warnings, and most volcanoes that are close to lots of people are now pretty carefully monitored, though there are exceptions the GAR points to the Michoacan-Guanajuato cinder-cone field in Mexico as a worrying one.
The Lovings were free to go home and live together, in a new cinder-block house Richard built himself.The constitutional arguments had meant nothing to them.
The cities' monotonous cinder-block buildings are almost invisible beneath a thick layer of neon advertisements.
Some attempt has been made to retain traditional building styles in the mountains, but many older single-story houses in all parts of the country have been replaced with two- to three-story cinder-block structures.
