How to Use cinder block in a Sentence

cinder block

noun
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  • Cars on cinder blocks in the yards, pop-up tents in the driveways.
    — Wes Moore, TIME.com, 17 Dec. 2016
  • The next morning, the girl's body was found near a cinder block wall about 100 yards from the stop.
    — Taylor Romine, CNN, 10 Aug. 2022
  • At one point, Denny was hit on the head with a cinder block.
    — Kerry Picket, Washington Examiner, 9 July 2020
  • Hudson said his house was saved by a cinder block wall that stopped the flames.
    — NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The truck was found on cinder blocks with its six tires missing.
    — cleveland.com, 12 July 2019
  • Pick up the rope and pull the cinder block toward you with a hand-over-hand movement.
    — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Pieces of cinder block were embedded in the back of his head.
    — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 19 Apr. 2020
  • For now, many are digging in, one cinder block at a time.
    — Washington Post, 19 July 2021
  • Take all the books from your plank and cinder block shelves and put them in boxes in your U-Haul van.
    — Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 13 July 2022
  • All that was left were pieces of cinder block strewn on the ground and a view of the devastation.
    — Ella Torres, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Grayson then went to the parking lot and destroyed the male victim’s car with a cinder block.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The farmhouse is empty and the little shop made of cinder blocks feels derelict.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The large, green cinder block building looks more like a school gym than a restaurant.
    — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Kicked away at a cinder block from his downhill stance.
    — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2022
  • For example, there was a cinder block beam sticking out of one side of the room.
    — Allison Duncan, House Beautiful, 2 Nov. 2022
  • White beadboard capped the roof, its brim shading a front porch set on cinder blocks.
    — Jeff Sharlet, Harpers Magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Directly across the street from the church was a cinder block building known as God’s Garage.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2022
  • Even some errant cinder blocks on the ground were overrun with fake rats.
    — Fahima Haque, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Family said there was a cinder block on the gas pedal and his phone and wallet in the car.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Chain-link fences have been replaced with cinder block walls.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
  • The dirt includes chunks of tar paper, cinder blocks and pieces of metal.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The men threw a cinder block through the backdoor of the home, located in the 9700 block of Seatonville Road, and entered it, police say.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 22 July 2019
  • Nearby is a trailer where on a recent day, a cinder block was propped up against the door.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The outside of the house is built with cinder blocks, giving it a sturdy, yet slightly rough-around-the edges look.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Many houses had been replaced with cinder blocks, nuts and bolts to hoist up the highway.
    — Robert Samuels, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The coffee table was just a stylish slab of wood resting on cinder blocks.
    — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The cell was made of cinder blocks and a metal door installed in reverse so it could not be opened from the inside.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Kennedy showed up at the house again late that afternoon and tossed two cinder blocks through the living room window of the home.
    — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The video begins with the rapper doing push-ups on cinder blocks in a room accessed by Tommy the Clown.
    — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2024
  • Authorities said cinder blocks were used to weigh down her body, which was discovered on April 2 at the bottom of the river, per FOX 8.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 20 July 2024

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