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For ASH, below is one of 127 sentences:
Likewise, both window sills were studded with little heaps of ash, arranged, not without artifice, in rows of more or less tidiness.

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 Meanings and Examples of ASH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ash
 v.  convert into ashes
 n.  strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats
Classic Sentence: (110 in 8 pages)
1  I gathered up some scattered ash from the floor.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  I flatter myself that I can distinguish at a glance the ash of any known brand, either of cigar or of tobacco.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3  He knocked the ash off his cheroot and rose.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
4  All were retreating, withdrawing and dispersing; and he was left with the ash grown cold and no glow, no glow on the log.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
5  It had long been observed that in a particularly strong, wet wind the pit-bank burned very vivid, gave off hardly any fumes, and left a fine powder of ash, instead of the slow pink gravel.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
6  The pasteboard in the fire had turned to grey ash.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
7  He poked the ash of pasteboard as much as possible out of the fire.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
8  I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
9  Having found the ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss where he had tossed it.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
10  The younger man sat over yonder; he knocked his ash off against the chest of drawers.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
11  I therefore smoked a great number of those excellent cigarettes, and I dropped the ash all over the space in front of the suspected bookcase.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
12  You might easily dent it with your thumb; it is of a hue between yellow and ash colour.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
13  Soon we could see the broken, grassy clay cliffs which indicated the windings of the stream, and the glittering tops of the cottonwoods and ash trees that grew down in the ravine.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
14  Set back on a swell of land at my right, I saw a wide farm-house, with a red barn and an ash grove, and cattle-yards in front that sloped down to the highroad.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
15  Likewise, both window sills were studded with little heaps of ash, arranged, not without artifice, in rows of more or less tidiness.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  At least one village about three kilometers from the crater has been covered in a dusting of volcanic ash.
2  Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the impact of the volcano ash cloud temporarily lessened, but stressed that passenger safety would remain paramount.
3  The ash had to be removed from the tarmac less it clog the engines of the planes, endangering passengers who've already been through a harrowing ordeal.
4  Stub out your cigarette in the ash tray.
5  The ash is so fine that it is impalpable to the touch but it can be seen as a fine layer covering the window ledge.
6  Today, by comparison, they are increasingly a blend of native broadleaf species, such as larch, oak, willow and ash, with neat rows of Douglas firs and Sitka spruces.
7  The city of Pompeii was destroyed by volcanic ash rather than by molten lava flowing from Mount Vesuvius.
8  A cloud of volcanic ash is spreading across wide areas of the Philippines.
9  When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak.
10  The bodies buried in the fine ash slowly decayed.
11  Coke is an economical fuel but it leaves a lot of ash.
12  This material is variously termed ash, clinker, cinders or slag.
13  The power-generation plant belched out five tonnes of ash an hour.
14  He blew hard on the ashes to rekindle the fire.
15  They had to remove the ashes from the burner first.