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Clean the ashes out of the fireplace.

He wanted his ashes spread over the ocean after he died.

His ashes are buried here.

Everything was burnt to ashes.

If ashes were flour and peat was bacon, we'd eat bacon pancakes every day.

England are about to win the Ashes.

The wood was kindled, the flames arose, and a mouldering heap of ashes was soon all that remained of Mrs Askew and her fellow martyrs.

I will show that it's possible to be reborn from one's ashes.

A delicatessen caught fire and burned down, leaving a heap of ashes.

When Grandma passed away, we kept her ashes in a special container.

Peace to his ashes!

Be careful - those ashes could still be hot.

scatter the ashes

He was cremated, and his ashes were put in an urn.

Some of his ashes were sent to the moon.