Ash

The audience was more captivated by the growing ash at the end of his cigarette than by his words.

Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.

Ashes from the fire floated over the street.

Ash from the fire floated over the street.

The family collected the ashes after burning the body.

The urn containing his ashes was eventually removed to a closet.

Napoleon’s ashes are not yet extinguished, and we’re breathing in their sparks.

Now, it's Haiti that needs help to rebuild and rise from the ashes [of an earthquake].

I dried the extracted leather very slowly on the steam bath […] until the substance was dry enough to ash. […] I think that the discrepancy in the percentages of "total ash" by method No. 2 and No. 6 is due to this excessive heat required to ash the leather […]

The inorganic material left after ashing lung tissue specimens not only contains inhaled particles but also very large quantities of inorganic residue derived from the tissue itself.

Ash and silica contents of the plant material were determined by classical gravimetric techniques. Tissue samples were ashed in platinum crucibles at about 500 °C, and the ash was treated repeatedly with 6 N hydrochloric acid to remove other mineral impurities.

A 10-g food sample was dried, then ashed, and analyzed for salt (NaCl) content by the Mohr titration method (AgNO₃ + Cl → AgCl). The weight of the dried sample was 2g, and the ashed sample weight was 0.5g.

"Nonsense," Mrs. Gardiner challenged, ashing her cigarette.

He realized that he was standing staring at her and he sat down quickly, making a business of ashing his cigarette.

Hamilton ashed his cigar, and studied the end of it for some moments without speaking.

‘He’s right, you know,’ said Archie earnestly, ashing a fag in an empty curry bowl.

Last spring, after I planted, I took what ashes I have saved during the last year, and put on my corn […] . On harvesting I cut up the two rows which were not ashed (or twenty rods of them,) and set them apart from the others in stouts; and then I cut up two rows of the same length, on each side, which had been ashed, […]

After the corn was planted, upon acre A, I spread broadcast one hundred bushels of lime, (cost $3) and fifty bushels of ashes, (cost $6.) […] The extra crop of the combination over the limed acre or ashed, was paid by the increased crop, […]

The ash trees are dying off due to emerald ash borer.

The woods planted in ash will see a different mix of species.