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
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Verb
  • The Sistine Chapel Signal: Smoke and Bells Ballots are incinerated after each voting session in a special stove in the Sistine Chapel.
    Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
  • Some plastic is incinerated to produce energy, but most of the rest ends up in landfills instead.
    Alex Jordan, The Conversation, 16 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • His cast includes manatees who use flatulence to control their buoyancy and cave dwelling fungus gnats that create beautiful, illuminated fly-traps from the mucus lit by their bioluminescent butts.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2025
  • The Democrats are getting ready to light $20 million on fire to study their unpopularity!
    Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 27 May 2025
Verb
  • However, because the Romans cremated their dead for many years, archaeologists have not found many gladiator bodies.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Revisiting a puzzling find Burials didn’t take place within settlements during the Roman period, leading the dead to be cremated or buried alongside major roads, the authors said in the study.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Gold fund inflows hit three-year peaks in April as market interest in safe-haven assets ignited.
    Royston Wild, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • In the beginning, Salzer said the trio’s friendship spark was ignited by their love of their grandmother’s jewelry.
    Alexandra Pastore, Footwear News, 5 June 2025
Verb
  • Ellie’s violence is always uncertain and, other than Nora, her kills leave her shaken and upset rather than kindling her determination.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • That in turn helped kindle a rally on Wall Street, though bond yields continue to climb, something President Donald Trump has sought to contain.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 28 May 2025
Verb
  • In 2015, federal authorities said, Gabrielli accidentally set himself on fire while torching the Mercedes-Benz of a Queens businessman who had stopped making his annual payoffs to an irate mob captain involved in an extortion scheme.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 3 June 2025
  • The crème brûlée, in particular, was a showstopper, torched to glass-shattering perfection right at our table.
    Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 3 June 2025
Verb
  • Data displayed on SpaceX's live broadcast of the launch showed all 33 of the rocket's engines fired normally during its initial ascent from Texas, a reassuring sign for the reliability of the Super Heavy booster.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 28 May 2025
  • The Suns fired 2022 Coach of the Year Monty Williams that summer, replacing him with Frank Vogel — who had just won a title with the Los Angeles Lakers two years prior.
    Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 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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“Ash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ash. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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