brick

Example Sentences

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The cold was like leaping into a brick wall: it kicked the breath from his lungs.

From Literature

Crews have hammered up long wooden huts on the lawn, with more in progress, and they’re adding brick walls around the huts.

From Literature

The school is a long brick building in the middle of a sea of gray pavement.

From Literature

The brick building, near Tunstall, East Yorkshire, is believed to be almost 70 years old and was designed as a monitoring post in the event of a nuclear war.

From BBC

Officials have overhauled the management of brick kilns, a major source of black carbon emissions, and taken other measures such as fining drivers of high-emission vehicles and incentivising farmers to stop agricultural burning.

From Barron's