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  • noun Plural form of cinderblock.

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Examples

  • Hundreds of students embraced his invitation, covering those painted cinderblocks with original art, quotes from favorite books, and deep thoughts born from teenaged angst.

    Erasing Signatures From History Jeffrey Zaslow 2011

  • According the county Sheriff, as we overheard him tell our parents, Dougie had filled a backpack with two cinderblocks, loaded himself down with the backpack, and stepped out into the air dropping 200 feet off the Somerset bridge and down beneath the icy waters of Lake Cumberland.

    CfK Kilean Kennedy 2011

  • Neighbor Stacy Smith, who lives across the road from the house, said her teenage daughter looked out her bedroom window just in time to see two people fly through the air along with the splintering wood, cinderblocks and glass.

    Death toll now at 5 in N.Y. house blast, 6 hurt 2011

  • Sometimes we also tie cinderblocks to the corners so the wind does not get under there and take the whole tarp to the neighbors.

    Tarp Tips 2009

  • "I'm putting my furniture on cinderblocks, just in case."

    East Braces for a Walloping Mike Esterl 2011

  • The two speed through a parking garage, and nothing inside or outside the car is off limits: staplers, rulers, seatbelts, cinderblocks and other cars are involved in the cat fight.

    These action films are more subtle but just as exciting 2009

  • Gone are the cinderblocks, chain-link fences and stainless steel boxes housing animals up for adoption.

    Ken White: New Digs for the Dogs, And Everyone Else Ken White 2011

  • My neighbor piles 100,000 cinderblocks together on his property.

    Matthew Yglesias » 400 Families Earned an Average of $345 Million Each in 2007 2010

  • Sometimes we also tie cinderblocks to the corners so the wind does not get under there and take the whole tarp to the neighbors.

    Tarp Tips 2009

  • He purchased a plot of land and he and his late brother, Nusbuga-Kyakuwa-John, hand built a half-pipe mini ramp with cinderblocks, mud mortar, and hand mixed cement.

    Andy Stepanian: Love in Action in Uganda: Remembering the Life of Nate Henn and Looking Forward 2010

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