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a light concrete building block made with cinder aggregate
cinder blocks are called breeze blocks in Britain
How To Use cinder block In A Sentence
- ‘We had to learn how to work with cinder block, cement, and stucco,’ says Ecker-Haleva.
- That evening, as my parents entertained the neighbors, and pies, deep-dish pizza, and macaroni casseroles filled our kitchen counters, I stole a rope and a cinder block from a nearby yard. Miracles, Inc.
- Rusted metal, bits of concrete and cinder block, patches of burnt, weedy turf.
- If the foundation is made of cinder blocks, they need to be set in a bed of mortar on the concrete.
- Vowels seem to swell deep in Caleb's throat, but he squeezes them through clenched teeth, as if bench-pressing cinder blocks in the vocal booth. Album review: Kings of Leon, "Come Around Sundown"
- He could see that at least the trailer was back on its cinder blocks, the glass raked into a crooked windrow. THE SHIPPING NEWS
- The commandments are featured on 81/2-by-11 pieces of paper in six schools, generally hung on white cinder block near main entrances and hallways. Ten Commandments in school stirs fight in Va. district
- It's a cinder block building with an orange light in the yard. SNOWJOB
- Nigerians build simple rectangular or cylindrical houses of reed, mud brick, or cinder block.
- Three small houses, made of painted cinder block and aluminum, faced the hotel from across the street.
