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Example sentences for: cinders

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While Pompeii was incinerated by volcanic cinders, a minimum of 20 m (65 ft) of ash and mud swamped Herculaneum, hardening and covering the houses in a protective crust that kept upper stories and even some of the woodwork intact.
By the end of that century farmers had developed a technique of digging trenches that enabled them to reach the fertile layer of earth found under the cinders, where they planted the vines that were then covered with the extracted ashes.