"ash" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Scattering ashes to the four winds, dust to dust, leaves no memorial - but it also means no one has to bother with any time-consuming tending.
- By the time the monks had closed in on the body and sprinkled holy water, there was little more than ashes left.
- The ashes left after a cremation are sometimes referred to by the neologism cremains, a portmanteau of "cremation" and "remains".
- She broke off, as though she could not continue, then she went on: "There were only ashes left to me of him.
- One of his French cigarettes was already dangling between his lips and the ashes fell off and left a big mark on his white robe.
- Blood and ashes, if you can't pull your wits out of the wine enough to talk straight, I'll leave now.
- The ground, as yet, was barely damp -why were only ashes left of the good-sized blaze they'd set not long before?
- Possibly my grief for my lost loved ones had burned so fiercely that already there were only ashes left.
- A second later, there were only ashes left.
- The coals inside had long grown cold, but the bowl was heavy with the ashes left inside.
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