brickwork

Example Sentences

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The device uses a repeating "brickwork" pattern that serves two purposes.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2026

A few years ago, they considered stripping the paint to reveal the original brickwork of the more than 3,500-square-foot home, hoping to eliminate the need for future repainting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

"The observatory is astronomy, it is also meteorology, and after many years I feel like I'm part of the brickwork."

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

Under a microscope, most of the heart cockle's shell has a layered structure, with thin plates of aragonite stacked in different orientations, "kind of like fancy brickwork," McCoy said.

From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024

An impacted welter of metal and brickwork and timber so thick that it’s hard to believe twenty men could get through.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr