brick

He was an accomplished artist, inventor and entrepreneur and the accidental inventor of the modern blast-furnace brick.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

The prosecutor's office is already investigating a criminal complaint regarding the 958,000-euro renovation of the tower's surrounding 700-metre wall, for which workers were painting a brick-effect concrete facade instead of laying brick cladding.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

As she walks Hollywood Boulevard, Gail adds new members to her crew, just as Dorothy does as she skips down the yellow brick road.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

But at the brick kilns, it is business as usual, says Paswan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The house in front of us is cheerful and well-kept: painted brick, with garden boxes of poppies in the window.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

The storage bricks will provide industrial heat once again as the beer is pasteurized, and steam is sprayed over the bottles to kill microorganisms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Condo owners alleged that the building’s walls had loose bricks and leaks, and that on the penthouse level, the roof and walls were “literally falling apart.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The film stops several yellow bricks short of erecting a temple to the sacrifices of fame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Noise and sawdust filled the room as dozens of students tried their hand at drilling through bricks and wood.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

She’s the most positive person in the world, and amazing and fun to be around, but in a strange and happy way sometimes she seems to be about nine bricks shy of a full load.

From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen

Users affected by issues with the device have speculated that a faulty update from Sky could be the cause of "bricked" TVs.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2024

The drawback, as many commenters online noted, is that this machine-by-machine approach isn’t much help for organizations with hundreds or thousands of bricked PCs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024

Meanwhile, Spotify is also dealing with a class-action suit from aggrieved subscribers who bought its beloved “Car Thing” audio gadget, all existing models of which will be bricked by the end of the year.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 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

I don’t remember much about our visit there, except for how stunned we were, each of us bricked inside our private grief.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

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

Now, Amazon is following a well-established pattern of companies bricking smart home hardware because they no longer want to support its ecosystem.

From The Verge ● May 30, 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