brick

Originally designed to evoke a classic Greek column, the structure's limestone, brick and terra-cotta exterior features ornamentation including lion heads, wreaths, eagles, and faces.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

The prosecutor's office is already investigating a criminal complaint regarding the 958,000-euro renovation of the tower's surrounding 700-metre wall, for which workers were painting a brick-effect concrete facade instead of laying brick cladding.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

Built in 1997, the brick abode includes a fireplace, two stories, and a pool outside.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

As she walks Hollywood Boulevard, Gail adds new members to her crew, just as Dorothy does as she skips down the yellow brick road.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

Feeling ridiculous, I retrieve the receipt from the floor and a brick falls through my stomach.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Lego strikes back against screens—with chips in bricks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

"We knew from the behaviour of the hospital in 2016 - and it's not the hospital, not the bricks and mortar - but the people," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

The smart bricks also detect motion, light up, produce sound effects that change based on play and, in some cases, sense and communicate with other smart bricks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

She said: "One day I just researched it and found out there wasn't a single bricks and mortar one in the entire UK and thought, 'that's crazy. That needs to change'."

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

They were close to the road with fading yellow bricks when Seven stopped cold.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

Brick has an app, but there’s nothing to do in it except select which apps get bricked and then activate the bricking functionality.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025

But in the final minutes Tuesday, with Iowa refusing to bow out quietly, Yates bricked two critical free throws.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

When the CrowdStrike software bug bricked 8.5 million computers around the world on 19 July, some of the first people to notice the effects were air travellers.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2024

Over the years these incumbents have successfully bricked themselves off from domestic and especially foreign competition.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022

Except when I glance at him, I see that his face has bricked up and I can tell running away is not part of his modus operandi.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

Unless they agreed, users were blocked from access to the Roku menu and apps, essentially bricking their devices.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

Is your smartphone inexplicably bricking whenever you try to open your favorite app?

From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023

Three years later he was bricking under pressure again, going two for 13 to send the 2018 Warriors back to the Finals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

Now, Amazon is following a well-established pattern of companies bricking smart home hardware because they no longer want to support its ecosystem.

From The Verge ● May 30, 2022

“He must have told her about the tunnel, because when I went by it this morning, the legionnaires were bricking it closed.”

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir