Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
ashes
IPA transcription: ['æʃɪz]
Usage examples
She was consumed to ashes.
"Yes, sire, and Moscow is now in ashes.
So she shook two dishes of peas into the ashes.
His shaggy brows swept down over his eyes like ashes quenching flame.
A bit of paper there was crumbling into ashes. Alone on Christmas Eve!
As he spoke, he knocked the ashes from his pipe and put it in his pocket.
It was quite dark, the sun being obscured by ashes and fine volcanic dust.
He was born in England; he never was out of England; his ashes rest in England.
It had tiny holes in it where the fire had sat after he had turned himself into hot ashes.
Now please give me the ashes of the mortar, as I wish to keep them in remembrance of my dog."