brick
Example Sentences
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These stocks hit the bricks at the end of last year, and this year they have been getting demolished.
From Barron's
Leah later told a story in which the public hated Burr so much that he was pelted with “bricks, broken eggs, sticks, and tin pans” outside the courthouse.
From Literature
She felt reassured, however, by the neat brick buildings and the friendly guard who checked her ID at the gate.
Neither team could summon much offense early, trading bricks back and forth for most of Thursday’s opening frame.
From Los Angeles Times
Star goalie Aerin Frankel had been a brick wall—in the rare instances that a puck had actually made it anywhere in the vicinity of the net.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
