Sentence examples for mounds of ash from inspiring English sources

He figured he was buried under the mounds of ash and twisted metal.

Mounds of ash and marigold and wood chips are floating all around the boat.

Similar ponds and mounds of ash exist at hundreds of coal plants around the nation.

They are six-sided, with four flat sides; the flat sides alone seem to have been used for gaming... Amid the detritus under the mounds of ash, soot, and dirt excavated at Pompeii and Herculaneum were found dice.

The hills ahead — stratified mounds of ash, swirling mud, clay and lignite coal, all reds and browns and tans — baked in an unrelenting summer sun, still harsh and hot at 6 p.m. Innumerable hoof prints, stamped in the dust, appeared as the Maah Daah Hey swooped into the open range.

I tried to examine the mounds of ash and all I found were melted objects which had solidified after the fire was doused.

I turned a corner and saw the library, a block-long building, charred black and its shell strewn, inside and out, with splintered glass, burnt beams, heat-warped furniture, toppled shelves, and mounds of ashes.

California's Soberanes fire has more than doubled in size in the past week, scorching more than 43,000 acres along the state's picturesque central coast and leaving mounds of ashes where homes once stood. .

A spokesman told reporters that Mr Gandhi never claimed that 74 bodies were interred in the ash, as was widely reported, but that there was a 70-foot-wide mound of ashes.

It is distressing for visitors to see mounds of human ash, particularly so for our gardener.

Another rescue team recovered 14 people, including several children, and reported encountering eight- to 10-metre high mounds of volcanic ash.