brick
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Built into the undulating terrain are brick homes, shingled cottages and a longstanding dive bar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The brick wall of the property was caved in near the front door, with smoke marks visible to the upper floor.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
The dogs’ sleeping quarters are modeled after the park’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride, with its fort-like corridors made of sun-dried brick, the walls strewn with overgrown jungle vines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The future was coming on fast, and it was dumb as a brick.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
The shadows around him loomed, each brick sealing his fate.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
"We take on that cost ourselves," he said, adding that rising prices for oil, a key component in plastic, had also not affected the price of Lego's bricks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
There are many reasons why, but inflation has been key - from the price of land, to builders' wages and bricks.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
Fried mung-bean pancake with spicy sauce, wafting in the air with the bricks of pungent soybean paste hawked by a nearby merchant, so strong you could taste it.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
Her 1984 movie “Rhinestone,” a romantic comedy with Sylvester Stallone, bricked at the box office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
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
But in the final minutes Tuesday, with Iowa refusing to bow out quietly, Yates bricked two critical free throws.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
The cobblestone house is topped off with Venetian-red roofing and a bricked chimney that reaches to the sky.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
During this summer of bricking, a few thoughts refused to leave me.
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
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
“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
