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bricks and mortar

NOUN
  1. building material consisting of bricks laid with mortar between them

How To Use bricks and mortar In A Sentence

  • The tombs were made of ashlars with dry joints, or of bricks and mortar.
  • These patents were for a steelyard, a candlestick, the anglet, a mason's hoist for bricks and mortar, and a balance (scale).
  • bricks and mortar" of a country estate in Suffolk, England and demanding that more people, known as "sureties" under the British legal system, be held liable for his whereabouts WSJ.com: What's News US
  • Usually the hoddies would start half an hour earlier in the morning so that when we arrived the scaffolding was loaded with bricks and mortar.
  • What was a potentially valuable, or at least useful, asset in bricks and mortar rapidly becomes a liability.
  • The original bricks and mortar might be pulled down but Leatherslade Farm will remain for ever at the centre of the legend.
  • Indie bricks and mortar bookstores may not always be able to satisfy that desire for "search-find-click-done" instantaneity, but they do have an edge in browseability. John Mesjak: It's Okay to Be Ambidextrous, but Don't Let Either Hand Do All the Work: on Jaron Lanier and Book Buying
  • In a sense, the evidence provided the bricks and mortar of the case; Huntley had threaded his thin and frantic line of defence around their incontestability.
  • Even when we cannot raise a building in bricks and mortar, the soul of a building may yet inspire a little tribe of intellectual children. Matthew Alderman in Dappled Things
  • What was a potentially valuable, or at least useful, asset in bricks and mortar rapidly becomes a liability.
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