How To Use Brick In A Sentence

Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together. Day of Honey
Iin this case it uses the atomic unit of digital life - a single screen of data on a Palm, a little brick of reality we spend so much time staring at all day long.
Nowadays she heats her place with a cast-iron stove perched on firebricks in the living room, cooks with propane, and does her beadwork at night by the light of a kerosene lamp while listening to a battery-operated radio.
The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
I use long lengths of floating row cover, anchored with bricks and stones, on annual and perennial beds.

Linguix Browser extension

Fix your writing
on millions of websites

Get Started
For Free Watch how it works

It was not a great botanic garden, but it was a lung in the midst of the crowded brick and stone of human habitation. THY BROTHER DEATH
It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
Without these sagacities, the brickwork of the tambour, in addition to taking a very long time so that the concrete could dry up and solidify, would surely have been too heavy to support the dome.
Brick with blurred colors or flecks of color in earthy tones of red, brown, black and buff appear completely at home in a rustic setting.
Remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want someting. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.
The first hand-held phones, affectionately known as "bricks", were still big and bulky, only made voice calls, and cost more than $4000.
The nearby street was littered with shattered vehicles, pieces of glass, bricks, mangled steel and scraps of clothing.
Somebody had bricked up all the doors and windows.
Instead, the headquarters are situated in a squat, brick building which seems rather unglamorous for the world of radio.
Instead, we decided to build right up against the brick walls and look out into a big central atrium. Times, Sunday Times
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
To swell into the hammer-swinging hardhat who loomed in the parlor sipping vodka and orange juice, hurling brickbat words and scraps of heart shrapnel at my mother, sister and me. 1997: What I Wanted
However much we can all appreciate the arguments in favour of renting, most of us still hanker after the long-term idyll of bricks, mortar and a white picket fence. Are we better off renting?
Two shrubs here are desert broom and burro bush, while wildflowers include desert honeysuckle, with long, tubular, brick-red flowers, and woolly feverfew, with white or greenish flowers.
Fraction by fraction it rose, then a dirt-streaked brown forehead appeared over the broken bricks.
It came in a steady flood from Fang to me and, through me, to all the creepy-crawly things I could hurl at the ground and at the concrete, at the brick, and at the stone. Crossed
I meant painted in the sense of a pigmented cementitious finish that is applied to the surface of the brick before firing. Green Building Elements: Brick
Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigour, and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; all their service wherein they made them serve, was with rigour_. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
Miracle recovery, hit me like a ton of bricks and then it was over in nothing flat, blah blah blah.
Slothrop kicks aside loose earth and finds a brick cairn, stuffed with potatoes ensiled last year. Gravity's Rainbow
They appreciated the soaring towers, pointed arches, the polychromy of brick and stone decoration and the carvings of birds and beasts. Gothic Renaissance in London
The quality of the brickwork is the best that I have ever seen, and not a single brick was disturbed beyond those actually removed. Autobiography
He said: ‘We have had bricks, snooker balls, missiles shot by catapults and all sorts.’
It is like buying a pig in a poke, " admitted Elizabeth Brickfield, the director of enforcement for the Parking Violations Bureau.
The economics of postage and packing may mean that discount retailing remains largely, if not wholly, a bricks rather than clicks activity. Times, Sunday Times
BRIQUETTE (diminutive of Fr. _brique_, brick), a form of fuel, known also as "patent fuel," consisting of small coal compressed into solid blocks by the aid of some binding material. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
Half of the house, the lower part, was made up of clay bricks of brown or red, while the upper levels was all beige or russet woodwork.
Tea at a tiny inn sunk in a dell through which a sleepy lane trickled between high banks -- tea in the pocket garden under sweet-smelling limes, where stocks stood orderly and honeysuckle sprawled over the brick-nogging, brought back old days of happy fellowship, just to outshine their memory. Anthony Lyveden
The dust was also mixed with clay to produce a finer quality brick. Times, Sunday Times
All you get are inferior Spanish clementines and Florida tangerines, hard as bricks but not so tasty.
He explained how in such a wall the block wall is parged and the brick and mortar comes right tight to it.
Judging by the ruins of the castle, the internal foreparts and the main walls were built of stones and covered with bricks.
It features all six films, all your favourite characters and all the classic scenes made out of the tiny bricks. The Sun
A sober brick building, unpretentious in scale and design, lies modestly low among lawns at the end of a road with playing fields on either side.
Over the door of a handsome brick building dated 1937, beneath a clustered family group whose adult held a caduceus, the lintel bore this inscription.
She was halted with a sensation somewhat akin to being slammed into a brick wall, her sword dropping from her nerveless fingers as the impact struck her.
They fronted the building with red brick.
Having successfully relocated the bridge, there's no job too big for the nation's favourite brickies.
Much like any brick or block wall, an interlocking block wall needs a solid foundation.
The latter is set behind neat new brick walls inset with panels of Norfolk flint. Times, Sunday Times
If the chimney is firebrick then the squirrel can climb out on its own.
I was notorious for talking myself straight into a proverbial brick wall, and that was something I certainly didn't want to do in this situation.
By reference to Plate XII it will be seen that the water-proofing, which in the concrete-roof tunnels extended the full height of the sides to the 15° line, was carried in the brick-roof tunnels completely around the extrados of the arch. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
Fancy and Kit jounced along redbrick streets past low, colorful buildings. Slice Of Cherry
To be on the Okinawa Program is not to be restricted to eating seaweed and warm bricks of tofu.
Add to family convenience and fun while increasing the resale value of your home with these attractive and practical brick ideas for the do-it-yourselfer.
In their place a solid row of brick facades pressed the old building tightly on each side.
When I arrived, I was standing outside a normal brick house, there were no witches passing by or broomsticks parked in the garden, so I felt brave enough to knock on the door, the door was answered by a lady not much older than me, I was in shock!
They're all in it together, since none of them can get a proper job, such as brickie or plumber, or CADCAM designer/builder of turbines, for example. One Big Happy Family
It was originally built of brick and rubblework, but since the restoration in the seventeenth century it has lost its primitive character. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
A lovely wall of stone and brick layers and fluted coping stones, with yew above, brought us into the Roman town of Isurium, now Aldborough.
The plaster on the walls has been removed to expose the original bricks underneath.
One of the ornamented fragments represents a row of floreated-like decorations, and each decoration shows on its side a concentric circle, consisting of three rings, -- the whole ornament being one which is found in later Egyptian eras, not unfrequently along the tops of walls in the interior of chambers, etc.Mr. Perring represents this fragment of sculpturing from the brick Pyramid of Dashoor, in his folio work, _The Pyramids of Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
However, whilst he believes that in terms of a stereotypical male job such as bricklaying, women should not be paid the same as men (obviously showing his sexist conception of what women should really be doing – kitchen and bedroom) that men however, SHOULD get the same amount of money as women for working in a cantine. In reply to ‘Angry Harry’ – Because the strive for gender equality is worth the effort… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
The area is sheltered from the south by an ivy-covered brick wall.
These options are more expensive than brick and blockwork but the construction industry believes the savings in terms of time, labour and productivity make them cost effective.
I saw the "yellow brick road" as some kind of swath of leopard-print fabric. Supermom VS the Diabolical Decorator of Doom
The school holds over 2, 500 young people in a massive brick structure that can only be described as foreboding.
Every day in every way there's enough to make one throw the newspaper across the room, heave a brick at the television set.
A cartload of bricks is worth about 200 yuan.
The Billet is a small elongated rectangular figure supposed to represent a billet or letter, and to some, a brick.
One of their projects was to tidy up the area where once stood an air-raid shelter and brick shed, the removal of which would have cost about £1,000 to be done privately.
The kiln is stoked initially with wood until the brick kiln is trembling from the heat and the flames. Times, Sunday Times
In terms of complying with the legislation in respect of recovery of payments, their way will be a brick through the window, or sending the heavies around to deal with a debtor.
Smoke from a slender chimney vents above the height of the second-level cooling room, a triangular ‘wood tube’ that cantilevers beyond a supporting brick wall.
The fine, intelligent, educated voice sang on in the sunny quadrangle of red - brick Colonial buildings.
The dust was also mixed with clay to produce a finer quality brick. Times, Sunday Times
If you're a scientist working in the proprietary labs of industry I've heard that the very first thing you have to learn is to UN-learn what you've been taught about the brick wall around causation. Continuation…
The wall was old and crumbling with plants growing in the interstices between/in/of the bricks.
Poured hot oil an 'laud'num into it, an' kept a hot brick rolled up in flannel against it, but didn't do no good. The Miracle Man
A ceramic firebrick kit is an extra with most models. Globe and Mail
On his right, the alley ended against a brick wall covered in purple graffiti.
The doors and windows had been bricked up to prevent squatters from getting in.
These days that can would be thrown at the resident or, worse still, a brick lobbed through their window. The Sun
Beneath the city's dense urban forest, low walls of Arroyo Seco stone and clinker brick front brown-shingled homes with porches set under graceful overhangs.
The instant appeal of the house comes from the mellow red brick perfectly matched by the clay roof tiles. Times, Sunday Times
I chip away the damaged brick and replaced it with a new one.
The wind was tremendous, but what was more surprising still was its warmth; it seemed to be of brick-kiln heat as it screamed round him. Hornblower In The West Indies
Shangil Tobaya "mean" flip a brick, "and the popular rhyme translates as" flip a brick, you will find gold. Doctors Without Borders
The ante-room has red quarries on the floor and heavily plastered brick walls.
He spoke while welcoming the first apprentices to a new brickwork academy. The Sun
These days that can would be thrown at the resident or, worse still, a brick lobbed through their window. The Sun
The tuna in question is a brick of sushi-grade bluefin toro, seared on one side only.
But they look up and admire the architecture, the faded paint on the bricks promoting toys, candy and soda, the tin ceilings visible through the huge windows, and every last one of them is just tickled by it all. BAR Approves Downtown Demolition at cvillenews.com
This was easier than cutting the bricks to make wedges, skewbacks and the arch key.
Moss has crept between the bricks until it's impossible to distinguish old sections of paving from new.
The rooftop water tank is supported by a dense grid of 1m thick parallel brick walls penetrated by arches to create a series of 4m wide vaults.
I don't see us returning to the giant brick of a phone like the earliest models.
We're making sure that every brick is the right brick and that it's firmly cemented into the wall.
Many were idle now, but some still turned, and it didn't need a hradani's ears to hear the sounds of hammers, saws, chisels, and other tools coming from the large brick buildings clustered about them.
He got a job at the local brick works.
Bricks here were a bit different from those at Ur, they were about one foot square by four inches thick made of sun baked straw reinforced mud and in their centres many carried an imprint in cuniform characters that I was told translated into This was built by King Coming of Age: 1939-1946
One day, when the boredom hits me like a brick wall, I will be off, hiking to the base of one of the hundreds of incredible rock formations I have seen or heard about, to begin some real adventures.
Cautiously he looked forth over flat landscape of building site, of brickfield, of the huge tanks and lush vegetation of sewage farms. A Sheaf of Corn
Cracked mortar between bricks should also be repointed by carefully removing and replacing any unsound mortar.
The room also features a brick fireplace with raised hearth and thick wood beamed mantelpiece, and is overlooked by a balcony which is accessible from the first floor.
Every brick was reused, while timbers were cleaned with dry ice, a gentler technique than sandblasting. Times, Sunday Times
The fitted kitchen has a range cooker with brickwork surround and wooden floors. The Sun
The company will have to do much better than this, if it is to avoid brickbats and lawsuits in the future.
Hers was the squattest and brickest of all, on a street called Oriole Road. ‘Ravens’
These can simply be hand-filled and troweled smooth as you lay your bricks.
The circuit became a motorsport venue soon after and was paved with bricks.
Writing about the building for The New York Times in 1995, Christopher Gray said, "This medieval brick fortress recalls the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, with a massive entry arch, barred windows and a machicolated cornice. Quogue-mire!
The United Auto Workers hit the bricks against General Motors.
On the other side, three stores, then the courthouse -- a cupolaed white frame building set back from the road with a patchy lawn in front -- then four more storefronts, two of them brick. Cold Mountain
She had just sped off on her bicycle after bricking a window.
His father was an Italian immigrant, a bricklayer and latterly a school caretaker. Times, Sunday Times
His decomposing body was found on Wednesday stuffed into a suitcase inside a brick shed in the family's back garden. The Sun
A spacious red brick building with 83 bright and airy rooms. The Sun
A bracket included with every piece is designed to allow the artwork to hang level on walls made of stone, stucco, clapboard, siding and brick.
These bricks often had cuneiform inscriptions, as did the cylinder seals that were also discovered. EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
Then armed with a sword, gun, battledore, or an armful of bricks to throw, and uttering sadistic cries, Adam would pursue him round and round the room, driving him from refuge to refuge, until almost beside himself with rage and terror, he crouched junglelike with ears flattened back and porpentine hair. The Complete Stories
The yellow brick of elevator buildings like his own.
Since then, other building trades, such as the cement masons and bricklayers, have conceded similar changes in their labor contracts with the city.
The house, approached by a set of steps, stands behind a fence with iron palings and brick columns flanking an ‘eyeglass’ gate.
Britain's biggest retirement housebuilder has appointed a chairman whose career has covered defence, infrastructure, components manufacturing and brickmaking. Times, Sunday Times
This route is punctuated by farms with ace brick barns; we passed more, some roofless, some heading that way, and joined the River Seven to take its low floodbank.
Pepe's house is an old run down, small cinema with boarded up windows and graffiti adorning the brick walls.
The pair do not sell at markets anymore, but their clothes are available in the more exclusive surroundings of Selfridges and boutiques in Brick Lane and Notting Hill.
The building was like a fortress, a tall gray monument of dusty windows and old bricks, guarded by crude metal fences all around its perimeter.
The Strangers House is a fair and spacious house, built of brick, of somewhat a bluer colour than our brick; and with handsome windows, some of glass; some of a kind of cambric oiled. The New Atlantis: Paras 1-29
Wassim Shazad, a 36 year old brick shithouse of a former-Marine drove four hours from North Carolina, to take aim at racial stereotypes of Muslims in America. Raj Patel: Polite Laughter on the Mall
You get kids throwing bricks at windows all the time, but you don't go out and kill them.
Missing parts were not imitated but added in a modern way, often using the rubble bricks of destroyed buildings.
Whereas most walls were brick or concrete, her wall was made of a translucent stone.
When trying to widen a space, square tiles should be laid in a diamond pattern and rectangular tiles should be laid in a brick or herringbone pattern.
BRITAIN'S building industry is flagging because of a shortage of bricks, it was warned yesterday. The Sun
The rest of the interview was reportedly drowned out by the sound of heads coming into repeated contact with brick walls.
We think a bypass would rip the heart out of Scarisbrick, the village where we live and some farmers would be ruined.
It was not actually as cool as I had hoped in that all the old brickwork is up the dangerous channel (the way we didn't go) so it was basically just a really long, filthy culvert, and the river was foul, but I now know an awful lot about buried rivers. May 10th, 2009
Proceed at your own risk, and if you permanently brick your phone, we can't help you.
A man wearing a hard hat and carrying bricks appeared on the screen. Times, Sunday Times
The community should provide adequate programs to help juvenile delinquents setup criminal lexus company brick rear donation school stuff direct detective cover factory brake pony cement man church admission feet attack sim politics tiger audi boyfriend home actor flat blast keyboard wolf case display samurai technologies laptop acura block monte will read it later. Firefighters Union Initially Snubbed Giuliani For "Disgraceful Lack Of Respect" After 9/11...And Other Campaign Updates
Bricks have always been used for years by the construction industry, and for lining of ore smelting furnaces.
The first, from an inconsiderable village, is become one of the most flourishing places of the kingdom, enriched by the linen, cambrick, flowered lawn, and silk manufactures. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
But learning to ride a wave requires a methodical bricklayer's approach.
The mill still stands and is a curious mixture of brick, elm, slate and corrugated iron.
Top Exposed brickwork and a range lend a country vibe to the kitchen, which is knocked through to the dining room. Times, Sunday Times
Remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want someting. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.
He restored the brickwork, plastering, floors and ceilings room by room.
To produce a dark brick, for example, it is baked at a higher temperature.
She heard a labored snick and felt the brick move under her hand.
Looking out of my bedroom window last night, making out the dusted redbrick chimneys of the parallel terraces, it was as if the discordance had shifted.
For roughly cutting bricks the large trowel is used; for neater work such as facings, the bolster and club-hammer; the cold chisel is for general cutting away, and for chases and holes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
In an attempt to open this sector to women, pioneer women were trained in construction-related jobs such as tiling, painting and bricklaying. Women in the Yishuv Workforce.
A young hoodlum heaves a brick through the window of a baker's shop.
The only traditional bricklaying was around the lift shaft in the rear courtyard.
The lower level has patterned brick exterior walls punctuated by arched windows, while the upper walls are heavy wood timber with stucco infill.
When I sing, people want to bung the closest brick at me.
Other massive materials, such as brick and stone, also store the sun's heat and add mass to a building's interior.
The interior of the tunnel is mostly bricked, with a few recently-repaired patches, and tiny lengths of chalky deposit hang down like trainee stalactites.
Fragile, temporary structures are far more vulnerable than permanent brick-built homes. Weatherwatch: tornadoes and trailer parks
And in small towns and rural areas, the state of the toilets can hit one like a ton of bricks.
After a long march we finally arrived at the brickfield in Albert, and there we saw for our first time the brass statute on the Church of Albert which was hanging head down. Over the top with the 25th Chronicle of events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette
Each whale ship carries its own brick kiln, above which are two big shining pots.
Near the audience hall was another immense gathering space with one hundred columns, as well as the large and well-guarded treasury constructed of deceptively plain mud bricks. Alexander the Great
She hauled herself out of the water, and stepped over the scorched brick edge on to the lawn. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
Set in the closed hand, there are three tour: hit brick, planets and the Pac - fighter.
Gas Aga which serves central heating and domestic hot water and set in most attractive brick recess with exposed beam over.
It has a basic construction of brick under a tiled roof.
If fire brick is not available to the forge builder, old red brick will do.
As relaxed as the atmosphere is, there is a mute reminder of Poland's past in the landmark red-brick lighthouse at the promenade's western end.
The deathy stillness of a town, and the barred windows, and shut shops, and empty streets, and great long lines of big brick buildins, look melancholy. The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
It was a nice road with old brick and stone buildings with cobblestone roads and sidewalks.
Given the car's brick outhouse aerodynamics it footles along at a fair old clip, only the odd crosswind unsettling matters.
Cracked screens, broken casings and malfunctioning operating systems short-circuited by moisture damage or dust infiltration can cause massive headaches and turn an expensive device into a useless brick.
The simple red brick carries the brand's name and comes in a white cardboard box. Times, Sunday Times
And then maybe a smokery of some kind, reminiscent as it is of the little brick structures with their terracotta chimneys out on the Dungeness peninsular. Wessex Interlude 2
Niko's boasts an enormous menu with everything from roasted fish, to brick-oven pizzas.
Three or four bricks were removed from the façade at all sides of the building and at all floor levels.
The layer in contact with the brick masonry (also known as "arriccio") is probably composed of lime, aggregates, such as sand and limestone, and a high presence of vegetable fibers, perhaps including wheat straw or husk. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Restoration Report 5
The couple sat in fear for 20 minutes as bricks and paving slabs were hurled through windows. The Sun
The latter batch should yield about 1000 pumice-concrete solid bricks measuring 25 × 12 × 10 cm and displaying a compression strength of roughly 25 kg/cm² after approximately 3 months 'curing time. 3. Precast Pumice-Concrete Building Members
The story of Dave Johnson—president of the 100-year-old, fourth-generation family-owned business, Summitville Tiles, Inc. a ceramic tile and brick manufacturer whose products festoon both the roof of the White House and the floors of McDonald's restaurants around the world—is typical. Ohio Shows the Way on Death Tax Repeal
Soon she pulled into the driveway of her house, a modest brick ranch type fringing the edges of her voting district.
Wander our surviving early 18th-century streets and look at the finely wrought brick window arches, the mellow brick and precise pointing or the well-cut stone, and the erudite door surrounds, the miniature porticoes leading into the sacred environs of the home. British architecture: Georgian
An old photo of the pub shows 16th century brickwork beneath the stucco.
The storage room has exposed brick and plaster walls, a stone floor and an unusual ox's harness chandelier.
It looked as if it had been dug and then lined with bricks of clay.
Is Brick Lane now undergoing another metamorphosis? Times, Sunday Times
What is the specific legislation under which, if, a 15-year old boy heaves a brick in somebody's window and he has done it many times before, he might end up in detention?
Below, a couple of men were sewing the "bricklayer's" body in canvas preparatory to the sea burial. Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
Hot and cold dishes are served with side dishes of tomatoes, cucumber, spring onions, sulguni (a cheese), and puri (unleavened bread baked in an open brick oven).
When the original hall was built, it was itself a departure from the medieval style of mansion and was the first manor house in the county made of brick and stone.
The towns that were affected were mostly small communities of brick houses, a compact commercial area, a church or two, a school, and maybe a health clinic or a hospital.
Resolving to have his fun first, and to look over the brickyard afterward, he rode on up the hill, prospecting for a way across country to get to the knolls. Chapter VIII
The facade had brick stairwells at regular intervals, which also housed elevators and restrooms for the workers.
Each one has its silvery gray live-oak lintel, still supporting the column of lovely pink brick.
Buy the correct length to go through handrail and plaster and into solid brick, block or stone behind.
Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their "style. The Certain Hour
Brick allows you to personalize the look of your home with elegant detailing, such as arches and quoins, different bond patterns and special shapes.
T 'ould gray drayed off directly, and he's gane tull t' loike bricks -- but t 'bay's no but sillyish -- he keeps a breaking oot again for iver -- and sae Ay'se give him a hot maash enow! Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago
Exposed stone is a strong feature of the interior, and no fewer than three walls of the living room are stone, with decorative brick detail around the doors and windows.
The body is buried or entombed in a brick or concrete structure.
To give a zero-clearance fireplace a more traditional look, you may want to install tile, veneer stone or brick, or another noncombustible surround material around the immediate firebox opening.

How To Use Brick In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):