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

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said the hubs were "about more than bricks and mortar" and showed the government "believes in young people and is investing in their futures".

From BBC • Apr. 6, 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

Coolidge concluded by echoing a historian’s judgment that “Hebraic mortar cemented the foundations of American democracy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

The principle of the scaffold was that loose bricks and mortar always were at the level of the top of the wall being built.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey