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Example sentences for: ashes

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Remaining ashes and shards were inelegantly deposited on a metal storage shelf in a lab, in a Styrofoam picnic basket labeled “Colon” in black marker, awaiting better tests [3].
Until recently it was sadly neglected but it has risen like a phoenix from the ashes and now performs the role of an up-market gallery where you can buy excellent copies of museum pieces.
Four decades after it exploded, tourism on the islands overheated, leaving in its ashes a forest of massive, block-booked hotels and beach-hugging villa communities with few discernible ties to Spain—places lined with German bier halls, English fish ‘n’ chips joints, and low-rent bars and discos.
And have your ashes scattered to the wind.
Though it disappeared from the record books following the decline of the Roman Empire in the fifth century — its lineage and magnificent monuments unappreciated — it has risen like a phoenix from the ashes since 1834, the year that it became capital of the modern country of Greece.