Examples of “clinker” in a Sentence

noun A very hard brick, traditionally made in the Netherlands, used for paving.

• She left the road at the little shed where he whom she still regarded as her father used to keep his tricycle, and walked up the clinker path towards the house. — Xavier Herbert (1938)

noun The hard ash left behind after a furnace, kiln or boiler has burned at very high heat.

• Cold and grim sat that malevolent brute the furnace, greedy, bottomless—its grate bars clenched over clinkers which no shaker could dislodge. — Emily Carr, Dew and Alarm Clocks (1944)
• The coal was terrible stuff—Indian, Abdul told me. The "dart" was used often and I saw some monster clinkers. — , On the footplate in Egypt (1942)