masonry

Example Sentences

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Behind them, Gehry designed bulky offices — one clad in dark, rough masonry, the other in irregular white stucco — but they’ve since been overshadowed by the quirky entry sculpture.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Locals sometimes used to swim around the stone masonry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

A witness told AFP that masonry from an eight-storey building in Dhaka had fallen onto a busy road below.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

For all the rescuers, Fedir told me, there was the constant awareness not only of the risks of fire, falling masonry and smoke, but of the possibility of another strike.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025

No way to pull them out once they’ve buried themselves in the masonry; you’d end up pulling the whole building down.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan