brickbat

How To Use brickbat In A Sentence

• To swell into the hammer-swinging hardhat who loomed in the parlor sipping vodka and orange juice, hurling brickbat words and scraps of heart shrapnel at my mother, sister and me. 1997: What I Wanted
• The company will have to do much better than this, if it is to avoid brickbats and lawsuits in the future.
• Gongs and brickbats: some parts of the park are a strange mix of super-high-tech rides and rather tawdry fairground stalls, complete with hustling barkers.
• The Maloney campaign plans to use Ms. Saujani's financial experience as a brickbat, aiming to take advantage of the anti-Wall Street climate. Upstarts Aim to Unseat Upper East Side Fixture
• The Civic Trust will submit its "Southbank Torrens" plan to the State Government and Adelaide City Council after launching the plan at its annual Brickbats and Bouquets awards for urban development yesterday. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
• The plan has drawn both brickbats and praise.
• It was the subject of appreciation and brickbats; of Letters to the Editor and newspaper cartoons.
• So it was surprising to hear the Sky News presenter had taken critical brickbats about her debut bonkbuster, First Ladies, to heart. Media Monkey's Diary
• Each side in the dispute has been throwing brickbats at the other.
• The park was a chaos of frenzied movement, bodies launching over the fence, brickbats and clubs swinging.