cinder block

noun

: a hollow rectangular building block made of cement and coal cinders

Examples of cinder block in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The coffee table was just a stylish slab of wood resting on cinder blocks. Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024 At the third and final risk station at mile 7.8, players stacked cinder blocks with every cast member's name on them in the correct order that they were eliminated from this season. Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2023 Hudson said his house was saved by a cinder block wall that stopped the flames. NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024 The family homestead consists of modest cinder block structures with no running water. John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 17 Feb. 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 Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2023 By the time he was born, the refugee tents among the sand dunes at Khan Younis had been replaced by small cinder block houses, but conditions were still dire. Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023 He was inspired to invent these elders by contemplating the oddly textured cinder blocks of a dingbat apartment on 6th Avenue in Venice. Mark Gozonsky, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023 Deputies responded and removed the body, learning it was weighted down with two cement cinder blocks attached to an electrical cord. Greg Wehner, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cinder block was in 1922

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“Cinder block.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cinder%20block. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

cinder block

noun
: a building block made of cement and coal cinders
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