ash

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Recent Examples of ash Other ways to reuse the tree include: Burning the wood to ash your garden. Making firewood. Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2024 Elsewhere in the Kardashian multiverse, Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet went public with their relationship, kissing and cuddling in the VIP section with Chalamet ashing cigarettes into the crowd … have some more respect for both the artistry and Diana Ross’s lungs. Vulture, 5 Sep. 2023 For charcoal, ignite a large chimney of coals, let burn until lightly ashed over, then distribute the coals evenly over one side of the grill bed; open the bottom grill vents. Christopher Kimball, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023 Other ways to reuse the tree include: Burning the wood to ash your garden. Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2021 See all Example Sentences for ash 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ash
Verb
  • Both couples woke to discover the fire incinerated their homes, and those of their neighbors.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
  • In just days, the flames incinerated not only homes but schools, daycares, grocery stores, cafes and workplaces.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • All types of lanterns are lighted throughout the streets, and poems and riddles are often written for entertainment.
    Jennifer Borresen, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The climate crisis is pouring gasoline on these blazes, but the Mafia may be lighting the spark, according to new research.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 27 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Rivero understood his son’s trepidation, having experienced the trauma of cremating his own father nearly 20 years earlier.
    Collin Blinder, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The Health Science Center’s contracts with Dallas and Tarrant counties — which supplied it with unclaimed bodies — stipulated that human remains were to be cremated when the program was finished with them.
    Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • When water ran low during the Marshall fire in Colorado, which ignited in late 2021, officials rushed untreated lake water through the system to keep supplies up, researchers found.
    Mitch Smith, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Today’s great photo is from Times photographer Wally Skalij at the scene of the Hughes fire, which ignited Wednesday morning north of Castaic.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Australia’s primary legacy on Bougainville is Panguna, a colossal, open-pit copper and gold mine that, while dormant, is still one of the largest on earth, and whose controversial operation kindled the Bougainvillean uprising.
    Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Tunisians have tried to protest Saied’s authoritarianism, kindling hope among observers that the country might return to its democratizing trajectory.
    Sarah E. Yerkes, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • But the fast-moving Hughes Fire that ignited Wednesday morning has already torched more than 10,000 acres in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
    Brandon Miller, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Across the city, five blazes—the Palisades, Eaton, Kenneth, Hurst, and Sunset fires—torched favorite trail systems and climbing crags, bike routes, and surf shops.
    Gavin Feek, Outside Online, 13 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The departments that saw their inspector general fired include the Defense Department, State Department, Department of Health and Human Services, and Department of Labor.
    Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Jan. 2025
  • To do that, the New Shepard capsule will fire its reaction control system thrusters to spin up to about 11 revolutions per minute.
    Tariq Malik, Space.com, 28 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The pair, who met as college undergrads, both burned with idealism and recognized their privilege could be leveraged for a game-changing idea.
    Carole Horst, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The Ellen MacArthur Foundation promotes circular fashion and says that, in the United States, an amount of clothing equal to a garbage truck is ferried to landfills or burned every second.
    Neeti Mehra, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023

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