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ash

Ashes are what is left of something after it has burned (been destroyed by fire). The was nothing left of the wood but ashes. He was covered in ash from the fire. After the funeral we kept his ashes in a vase on the table. Ash is a light gray color. The color of wood ashes. My sister loved to wear ash-gray cloths. An ash is a type of tree. I had an ash growing in my yard. There are several ashes in the lot across the street. The letter Æ (capital) / æ (lower case). This letter is not used often in modern English. It is found in Old English and some other languages, and is an IPA symbol.

ash

the residue that remains when something is burned any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats convert into ashes

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Simple sentences

Volcanic ash disrupted air travel.
In the Mediterranean forests, we have many kinds of trees: oak, pine, willow, ash, elm, and others.
Don't drop cigarette ash on the carpet.
Acid soil is neutralised by ash.
Volcanic ash brought aviation to a standstill.
Volcanic ash covered the city.
After the fire, only ash was left.
In our Mediterranean forest, there are lots of trees: oak, pine, willow, ash, elm, etc..
Mount Etna has erupted, sending lava and ash plumes into the Sicilian sky.
The ash tree, which is in our garden, still hasn't sprouted. And it will be the end of may soon.
The southern Italian island of Sicily has been covered with a vast plume of smoke and ash.
The ash is a tree.

Movie subtitles

Look Vera, in the meantime, will you clean out the ash compartment. - Maybe there's some stuff in it.
And a very nice death benefit when your ash can gets punctured.
Rain causes panic, the rain of ash on the waters of the Pacific.
There won't even be an ash remaining.
I found it in an ash can.
In the ash can with everything else!
There's a cloud of ash over us.
A cloud of ash?
Watch that cigarette ash, it's going in the pot.
We heat the lead in the bone ash. Bone ash!
What if that ash fell by mistake?
This ash is still warm.
Surely, flicking the ash off a cigar should be child's play.
Look for our advertisement in today's ash can.
Your picture will be on every ash can.
On the windowsill you left four infinitesimal pieces of ash from a particularly revolting kind of tobacco which you were known to use.
The rag used on artificial documents leads an ash that is unmistakable.
Sounds like somebody dragging ash cans around.
Got one going to Kingman, Ash Fork, Prescott, Iron Springs.
Yeah, you ought to handle garbage and ash-cans all day and see how your hands would look!
Ash won't hurt it, darling. There.
Since do you use this watertank as an ash tray?
Throw them in the ash can.
The rest is ash!
Mountain ash in his medication.
Mountain ash!
But they weren't about tramps, lockouts, sweatshops, people eating garbage in alleys and living in piano boxes and ash cans.
NO. I'M ONE OF THOSE AWKWARD PEOPLE WHO GETS ASH IN THE TYPEWRITER.
Ash Wednesday is tomorrow.
This false report appeared on Ash Wednesday and the message said she'd die by the end of it.
Right here. And I served on Ash Wednesday just like you.
All is vanity! The rest is ash! - Yes, yes.
Throws ash everywhere.
My sword is ash beside me.

News and current affairs

As Ash suggests, there is a strong ethical case for saying that it is wrong for leaders to give absolute priority to the interests of their own citizens.
But there was no evidence that the more widely dispersed ash blowing over Europe from Iceland would cause similar problems.
Institutions that had been seen as Rocks of Gibraltar were revealed to be smoking volcanoes, at risk of imminent dissolution into lava and ash.
In the past, jets flying into ash from volcanoes in the US, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Mexico have temporarily lost engine power, and in one case, dropped thousands of feet, although all managed to land safely.
The International Civil Aviation Authority has announced that it will convene a group of experts to help it provide guidance for the industry to decide what level of ash in the atmosphere makes it unsafe to fly.
In 1783, a volcano in Iceland spewed so much ash into the atmosphere that the entire northern hemisphere was cooled for almost three years.