cinder-block

• “We pulled up to a little cinder-block building marked “Clinic,” and I threw the truck into park.”

  Simon & Schuster: How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf

• “Two feet of white picket fence, made of wood-textured plastic, stuck out of the ground on either side of the cinder-block stairs.”

  Simon & Schuster: So Much Pretty

• “But her friends filled just a few cardboard boxes with the remnants of her life in the cinder-block house.”

  The Wall Street Journal: South Struggling With Cleanup

• “It roared down Main Street, through the middle of town, sawing homes in half, tossing trucks and residents thousands of feet away and pulverizing cinder-block houses and aluminum trailers alike.”

  USA Today: Miss. town tries to recover, rebuild after tornado

• “A desolate market sits behind the giant train station, a jumble of cinder-block storefronts, almost all abandoned and strewn with rubbish.”

  The Next Empire

• “The rehab clinic is in a shabby two-story building on an unpaved street lined with cinder-block hovels, old cars, and derelict buses.”

  The Fall of Mexico

• “It was in a small cinder-block structure there that she and her husband, the late Bishop James Peebles Sr., and their three sons built a Washington-area institution from scratch.”

  The Washington Post: Betty Peebles, Jericho City of Praise senior pastor, has died

• “Rebuilding efforts have been meager: on the outskirts of town sits a half-finished housing development, empty new cinder-block homes with no doors or glass in the windows.”

  The Trial of Thomas Lubanga

• “His 130-foot-long cinder-block building on Belmont Ridge Road in Ashburn opened in April 1980.”

  The Washington Post: At country auctions, many treasures are in the eye of the beholder

• “From there, they moved to Northeast Washington's Kenilworth neighborhood, where James Peebles built a cinder-block church that seated 35.”

  The Washington Post: Megachurch co-founder reached beyond the pews

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