brick
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River just keeps banging his head off the brick wall that is J.K.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The future was coming on fast, and it was dumb as a brick.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
He also criticised delays within the compensation system, saying even straightforward claims could take years to progress and that victims were often left "banging your head against the brick wall".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
In the urban-focused section, the handles of purses or luggage are adhered to sections of the work patterned like brick and embedded with small windows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Father stooped down to pick up a small bruised petal from the brick pavement; tenderly he inserted it in his buttonhole.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Rescuers formed human chains to remove bricks and masonry, stopping every few minutes to listen for signs of life from those trapped below.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
It later emerged he had been negotiating his plea for months, a fact which she said "hit me like a tonne of bricks".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Swansea Bay Health Board recommended using stones, bricks or a dedicated stand to prevent heat transferring to the sand.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
He built the sets excitedly and diligently charged his smart bricks overnight, waking up early to play with them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
“Summer,” he said to me once, “drop some of them bricks you keep hauling around with you. Life just ain’t that heavy.”
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
An Australian library has welcomed home a book roughly 150 years overdue after it was discovered inside a tea crate bricked into a sealed fireplace.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Brick has an app, but there’s nothing to do in it except select which apps get bricked and then activate the bricking functionality.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
One person said their Charge 5 went "from perfect to non-functional overnight", while another said in a post made on Christmas Day that the update caused their device to be "completely bricked".
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2024
Tennessee did not attempt a second-half free throw until 4:12 remained, at which point Jahmai Mashack bricked both attempts.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023
Except when I glance at him, I see that his face has bricked up and I can tell running away is not part of his modus operandi.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
Unless they agreed, users were blocked from access to the Roku menu and apps, essentially bricking their devices.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
Is your smartphone inexplicably bricking whenever you try to open your favorite app?
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023
Three years later he was bricking under pressure again, going two for 13 to send the 2018 Warriors back to the Finals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
It is probably still best to leave Watch betas to the brave though — some reports of bricking describe an infinitely spinning loading screen, which this process may not be able to fix.
From The Verge ● Mar. 15, 2022
“He must have told her about the tunnel, because when I went by it this morning, the legionnaires were bricking it closed.”
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
