When the villagers heard the news, they wore sackcloth and ashes as a public display of grief.

At the end of the festival, a lone villager hauls one's ashes in a small urn to the stone shrine as part of the ritual.

They were hauling one's ashes to the seaside cemetery when a sudden storm forced them to stop.

After the cremation services, volunteers hauled one's ashes to the scattering garden beneath the oaks.

The potter mixed pearl-ash into the glaze to achieve a soft gray-white sheen, aware that the substance was a powder with quicklime-like chemical properties produced by heating mollusk shells until calcined.

Several Ash Wednesdays over the years reminded her of the promise of repentance.

The bright clusters of berries on the mountain ash lit up the hedgerow in late autumn.

At the summer music festival, ash blondes stood out under the string lights as they danced barefoot in the grass.

I harvested a large ash gourd from the backyard trellis this morning.

At dawn the skald told a tale of the world-ash, whose roots and branches bound the nine realms together.