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    Use "brick" in a sentence

    brick example sentences

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    1. I saw the other candidate and, without wanting to sound big headed, there really was no argument! She was built like a brick privy, as the saying goes!


    2. no … not that red brick place … oh what’s the name of the place?’ he replied, irritation colouring his tone


    3. The Victorian solidity of brick and stone was finally giving way to


    4. ‘You have been a real brick over the past few days


    5. The sheer mass of stone and brick surrounding him compressed his sight


    6. in the shadow of Methodist red brick


    7. from the receding lick of a black brick hearth


    8. The shadows cast by brick and mortar


    9. slumped against a drip damp wall of cold red brick,


    10. this lonely pile of brick and slate,

    11. a whisper of seeding dandelion heads on hard brick


    12. in a wall of sound that sweeps through brick,


    13. where brick meets cold earth by a fringe of grass


    14. Anyway, I brought a load of 'em back with me and sold the lot in one morning down Brick Lane so now, whenever we get the opportunity, we buy a load more and do a nice line for as long as they last


    15. Shit! Barrie is about as sensitive as a brick and apparently didn’t pull his punches in stating his ‘respectable’ stance


    16. The next Sunday evening, with both of the Roach boys quite worn out by the wheeling of barrow loads of hardcore into the brick curtained hole where the new patio was taking shape, Helen Roach suggested her husband go down to the pub for a couple of beers


    17. a brick, although he never said any such thing to the man’s face,


    18. heading towards the west, where Granny lived in a little red brick,


    19. and clammy brick wall


    20. The outer houses were wood and mud brick, but there were several of plastered stone and some second floors

    21. Their dress was very much as she had seen in the popular press, the architecture and the lay of the land were as she had seen, but the thousands and thousands of mud brick and rough timber structures around the palace were never shown on any reproduction she had seen


    22. Most were mud brick and timber with wood beamed tile roofs


    23. The young man’s dear old mother was a true brick that night


    24. worn out by the wheeling of barrow loads of hardcore into the brick


    25. There were some low brick buildings with flat roofs,


    26. Maggie explodes through it and the door slams into the white washed brick wall


    27. There was a thick brick wall eight feet high above the uppermost public street line, generally the sixth to twelfth floor except here on the Third Canal side where it was more like the twentieth


    28. She is quietly fuming, storing heat like a brick, ready for whatever hour Jock deigns to return


    29. doctors, brick layers, bums, babes, you name it


    30. The outside was brick that

    31. Oh, well, another brick in the wall


    32. It looked innocuous enough – a two storey brick building


    33. He strains again to see the world as it should be, but staggers backwards, hitting the brick wall of the barn with his head as he falls


    34. lost his concentration on the back of the brick building


    35. Karate competitions, where the guy would hit the top brick and the ten bricks


    36. “Then once she had rescued my shriveled male pride from the depths of despair into which I was ready to be plunged, she painstakingly guided me through rebuilding my imploded inner world, brick by brick


    37. And on each brick was a word


    38. It had a single brick on it, but the player leaned toward its side because


    39. On the brick was a


    40. because they didn’t have the one brick that’s more important than the rest

    41. Don’t even want ya if you don’t have that all-important brick in your


    42. He looked at the old brick structure with a yellow façade that could use a good coat of paint


    43. There are a few small cities, and at least a thousand villages, with more brick, stone and mortar than you see in the lands of Zhlindu, but as much of the vine growing on it


    44. The total equals the brick wall I built with these blocks in order


    45. Wrapping both hands around “Hell’s Bane’s” handle, he hoisted the shimmering brick of crystal to his shoulder and continued, “To be sure, our ancestors had a plan


    46. “You wouldn’t have that problem if you used a hammer, Grandlefist,” Brodin joked, pointing to the crystal brick that was “Hell’s Bane”


    47. Blessed be the Gods, the crystal brick at the end suffered no such damage


    48. Had some intrepid botanist trudged the weary path, he or she would have eventually reached the mount, and had the mist dispersed they would have spied in the mounts lee a large green hollow ringed with hedges and 'Dingles House' which its red brick and slate roof set in a substantial garden beautifully landscaped with all manner of tall trees, shrubs and lawns


    49. As they passed through into the garden they spied the red brick house surrounded on all sides by a vast array of plants shrubs and huge old trees with a patchwork of lawns and terraces


    50. A second before colliding into it, he saw a two story building of brick appear before him












































    1. wood smoke curling up from the red bricked stack of The Pheasant


    2. The part of the circle path she was following led her to a bricked walkway along the river


    3. The bricked road was a little bumpy as she moved along to the Monongahela, but she didn't come to a complete stop when she neared


    4. He managed to get hold of the bricked edge, and then tried to scramble through the opening into the dungeon


    5. They eventually turned into a street called Ledgers Road and looked at what seemed an endless road of red bricked houses


    6. �Unless he's got it bricked up we'll be able to walk in with this


    7. The mamba-hole had been bricked up and the ant-lions


    8. only been covered, not bricked up, so the bullets could have


    9. Juko was silent as he limped towards the gladiators' bathhouse, which stood just past the practice field in a squat, bricked building that was built atop their quarters


    10. It is a very ancient church, picturesque, and with beautiful lancet windows with delicate traceries carefully bricked up

    11. The carriage took her to a large red bricked home with a circular driveway


    12. I was forced into a cold, all metal chair in a gray bricked room with no windows


    13. Once the trial was ended, she'd been bricked in


    14. The four years Erzsébet spent bricked up at the top of the castle were not idle years


    15. His chosen hiding place was in the entrance of a gravelled driveway which curved expansively around the front of a neo-Tudor mansion: a jigsaw puzzle of herringbone brickwork, black timbers and white painted plaster, with a profusion of intricately bricked chimneys that towered into the sky like aerial monuments


    16. “ he bricked them up in the attic after that


    17. There was a big fireplace that was bricked on the bottom, and the bricks was kept clean and red by pouring water on them and scrubbing them with another brick; sometimes they wash them over with red water-paint that they call Spanish-brown, same as they do in town


    18. The chimney is bricked up


    19. The graveyard tunnel was bricked up and—hell,” she sighed, “I thought it was all over


    20. Grandpa’s library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did

    21. There were walls bricked with encyclopedias, and a fireplace in which you could stand without bumping your head


    1. kept at home and to execute homos, they'd be outside their house bricking it


    1. filled with water whilst others had pink turrets made from bricks


    2. His walls are no longer covered in mirrors, but are made of just plain, white bricks


    3. I believed then that he was trying to drop bricks into the ponds of my mind


    4. "It was never executed, instead the fusion containment bricks were taken down and stacked, then all its mounting framework and hardware, all four tons of it, was removed and stored away in a shuffle of paperwork under the heading 'spare parts' in a warehouse in Gengee


    5. Beneath old bricks that hold a fire on winter mornings,


    6. The rented oblivion, dirty carpets and sofas propped on bricks,


    7. built on four courses of crumble-edged house bricks,


    8. where the Lavatera blows west and red bricks merge


    9. The number of words is the number of bricks


    10. where tired old bricks and an empty church

    11. A small child is playing with wooden bricks on the rug in the main room; he looks up at me curiously as I go through the room


    12. I stop momentarily to pile a couple of bricks up for him


    13. With a delighted smile, the child immediately knocks the bricks down again


    14. Then he went fishing through the liberally disheveled contents of his parents’ lives, contents that lived in disarray on a low coffee table propped up by three wooden legs and some house bricks


    15. table propped up by three wooden legs and some house bricks


    16. "Maggie's already spitting bricks, Jock, you don't want to upset her any more


    17. Mum – looking different with her hair long and unpermed – an older woman, an older version of Mum … it must have been one of the few times Gran came round before she moved in with them …hearing a conversation going on over her head as she busied herself with bricks on the carpet


    18. destination was a long low building constructed of bricks painted a


    19. He can see individual bricks in the wall of the porch in front of which the putter's head is hovering


    20. But now, now I was shitting bricks as

    21. Karate competitions, where the guy would hit the top brick and the ten bricks


    22. The bricks were actually red, but looked the color of brown


    23. Layer by layer the bricks were laid and cemented


    24. The profit, he said, would not compensate the expense of a stone-wall: and bricks (he meant, I suppose, bricks baked in the sun) mouldered with the rain and the winter-storm, and required continual repairs


    25. Someone had filled the largest cleft in its mud bricks with shards of pottery


    26. Now she was headed straight for an enormous mound of rubble and broken bricks


    27. The committee are accused of having sent out bricks and stones from England for the reparation of Cape Coast Castle, on the coast of Guinea ; a business for which parliament had several times granted an extraordinary sum of money


    28. These bricks and stones, too, which had thus been sent upon so long a voyage, were said to have been of so bad a quality, that it was necessary to rebuild, from the foundation, the walls which had been repaired with them


    29. Not a leaf from the tree whose limbs covered her roof were on the bricks of the courtyard


    30. bricks, though oddly this gave the church an

    31. 'Watch out for the bricks


    32. However, bricks can tend to become hot on sunny afternoons


    33. My rejoinder is that it would be at least comparably difficult for a man laying bricks to have an orgasm and lay bricks simultaneously


    34. As his eyes roamed over the cloud, he saw a tall, thin chimney, constructed of tessellated red bricks, from which the darkness flowed in turbulent flurries


    35. The rest though decided to stone us with bricks and other objects and (very foolishly if you ask me) invited us “to come and f get them if we f dared


    36. The stack exploded in a shower of bricks, and masonry cascaded down the steeply sloping roof


    37. Basilard cut the rope, and the bricks crashed in


    38. Below, bricks shuddered and shifted


    39. In time, I realized I felt a strange closeness to him and one day it all hit me like a ton of bricks! It was me that had traveled forward in time


    40. It felt as though her bag was full of bricks

    41. "An old lady belted you with a bag full of bricks," he told me with a concerned look


    42. Covered from head to foot in soot, he finally came to rest laying on his stomach atop a pile of bricks, his hands clasped in front of his face, looking for all the world like a performing seal in a circus


    43. What an awe-inspiring pile of bricks


    44. It seemed as if it was painstakingly constructed of large bricks or blocks of whatever material it was built from


    45. At the moment, she felt only despair, although there was plenty else: her skin was so insect bitten she could be mistaken for a smallpox victim, her feet were encased in sun-dried mud bricks, her ankle swollen and throbbing, and her underwear felt as though she had messed herself – none of it registered on her conscience


    46. Its flat gray surface reminded him of bricks made of argyle and ash


    47. off the bricks, and dropped


    48. Green and cream bricks stuffed his


    49. Cash bricks, dwarfed a counting


    50. Green and cream bricks












































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    Synonyms for "brick"

    brick mass slab chunk cube block section cake hunk

    "brick" definitions

    rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material


    a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy