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Example sentences from the Web for ashes “At one point they were going to perform a burial ceremony with the ashes ,” he says.
Rage Against the Ebola Crematorium | Abby Haglage| November 11, 2014| DAILY BEAST
In the not-so-distant future, an independent country, which belongs to Kurds, will rise from these wants, pains, fire and ashes .
Dear Turkish PM: It’s Time to Act to Save Kobani’s Kurds | Bahman Ghobani| October 8, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Ashes & Fire, a pleasant, folky, water-treading effort, followed in 2011.
‘Ryan Adams’ Is No Domestic Bliss Album | Keith Phipps| September 12, 2014| DAILY BEAST
The Oberhausen aquarium erected a memorial of the psychic octopus with a golden urn containing his ashes .
The Amazing Tale of Paul the Psychic Octopus: Germany’s World Cup Soothsayer | Emily Shire| July 12, 2014| DAILY BEAST
And Operation Paperclip, born of the ashes of World War II, was the inciting incident in this hall of mirrors.
What Cold War CIA Interrogators Learned from the Nazis | Annie Jacobsen| February 11, 2014| DAILY BEAST
To be sure, there were some ashes and a little dirt in the soup, but that was not regarded as important.
Blackfeet Indian Stories | George Bird Grinnell
His body was afterwards burned, and the ashes conveyed to Quito.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 | Various
A new house is put up over the ashes of the one in which your husband lived while he was here.
A Mortal Antipathy | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
She turns as pale as ashes , and drops back on the sofa, and says, faintly: 'It is my husband.
The Queen of Hearts | Wilkie Collins
The roots are used as fuel; and their ashes make excellent ley for the manufacture of soap.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II | Robert Kerr
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pl n ruins or remains, as after destruction or burning the city was left in ashes
the remains of a human body after cremation
Words nearby ashes ashen, ashen light, Asher, Asherah, Asherite, ashes , ashet, Asheville, ash fall, ash flow, Ashford
British Dictionary definitions for ashes (2 of 2) pl n the Ashes a cremated cricket stump in a pottery urn now preserved at Lord's. Victory or defeat in test matches between England and Australia is referred to as winning, losing, or retaining the Ashes
Word Origin for Ashes from the mock obituary of English cricket in The Times in 1882 after a great Australian victory at the Oval, in which it was said that the body would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia
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Words related to ashes embers, powder, soot, dust, slag, charcoal, cinders, remains, rubble, vestiges, debris, remnants, relics, volcanic ash