cinder block in English

noun
1
a lightweight building brick made from small cinders mixed with sand and cement.
His dark patio was hemmed in by a cinder block retaining wall that created a barrier between the 1940s house and the rest of the yard.
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1. Same cinder block construction, low ceilings, oppressive fluorescent lighting.

2. Holding a cinder block will Adversely affect your running speed

3. The room is maybe six feet square, with cinder block walls.

4. Rusted metal, bits of concrete and cinder block, patches of burnt, weedy turf.

5. So they find a big, old cinder block and pitch it over the side.

6. With notable exceptions, adobe slowly is giving way to cinder block and other inexpensive modern materials.

7. Log cabin Bathhouses are more attractive than cinder block buildings that are reminiscent of prison showers

8. Three small houses, made of painted cinder block and aluminum, faced the hotel from across the street.

9. The ball clanks off the rim like a cinder block; an ugly afterthought of a shot attempt.

10. In some spots, villagers were building cinder-block houses, a sturdy if ugly improvement over their flimsy bamboo shacks.

11. She was sitting on the porch of a modest country home —a wood and cinder-block structure with a rusted tin roof.

12. The cinder-block surroundings, while not luxurious, are a far cry from the stripped-down wards of 1958 that greeted early volunteers.

13. 30 At the foot of the slope there are cinder block houses, but as you climb the ridge, concrete gives way to wood and tarpaulin, then cardboard and twigs.

14. First, using the finite-element method, numerical Backscatterings of metallic and dielectric targets behind a cinder block wall are calculated and the effects of the wall on images are investigated

15. For example, if the space that the cinder block needs to fit into is 8 inches (20 cm) long, measure 8 inches (20 cm) in from the end of a Cinderblock and make a chalk mark

16. Cinder Blocks Now, about so-called ‘Cinder blocks’ … I say “so-called” because “Cinder block” is a somewhat antiquated and the generic term for a type of structural block that can easily be made out of many different things

17. ‘Everything the actor owned formed a crude Breastwork ten yards from the chipped cinder-block front step.’ ‘Yet I still felt muddled, as the Breastwork became more defined in the clouds of smoke from the firing of muskets.’ ‘There was probably a timber Breastwork along the top.’

18. ‘Everything the actor owned formed a crude Breastwork ten yards from the chipped cinder-block front step.’ ‘Yet I still felt muddled, as the Breastwork became more defined in the clouds of smoke from the firing of muskets.’ ‘There was probably a timber Breastwork along the top.’