Example sentences for: ash

How can you use “ash” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Vesuvius blotted out the flourishing town along with Herculaneum on 24 August a.d. 79, burying it under 7 m (23 ft) of ash: It is still being slowly excavated.

  • Dad was a Camel man, and his offer usually came as he filled the air with smoke and ash.

  • He would entertain the Post newsroom (where I worked) with his stories--his rough, sonorous voice; his slow drawl; his erudition and love affair with the language; his cigarette ash building up until it rolled, unnoticed by him, down the front of his shirt.

  • Its pock-marked, lunar-like surface, 60 km (37 miles) long and 20 km (121/2 miles) wide, is dotted with more than 300 volcanoes, yet onions, potatoes, tomatoes, melons, and grapes all spring in abundance from the black ash.

  • Ash covered much of northern Bali, ruining crops, blocking up the rivers, and causing mudslides that took many lives.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast