mortar

Example Sentences

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"Not only were oysters harvested for food from the earliest days of colonization, but the reefs themselves were dredged and the shells crushed and burned to make lime for cement and mortar," she says.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

Afterward, Mexican forces seized heavy weapons, including a high-caliber Barrett rifle, munitions, mortar grenades, two rocket launchers and eight vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

And this is not some archaic cinderblock and mortar contraption: It’s a top-of-the-line, high-tech fabrication.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2025

"For even basic interventions to be done we need cement or lime mortar which is not available."

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

Good rhetoric uses the bricks and mortar of poetry, but it doesn’t lay its walls as regularly.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith