brickwork

Example Sentences

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A few years ago, they considered stripping the paint to reveal the original brickwork of the more than 3,500-square-foot home, hoping to eliminate the need for future repainting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

"The observatory is astronomy, it is also meteorology, and after many years I feel like I'm part of the brickwork."

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

Under a microscope, most of the heart cockle's shell has a layered structure, with thin plates of aragonite stacked in different orientations, "kind of like fancy brickwork," McCoy said.

From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024

Robbie Mitchell, a reference assistant at the library, said that inside the passageway you could see the brickwork of the library's lower levels and the bridge’s stonework.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024

The hooks have been set into the brickwork of the Wall, for this purpose.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood