masonry

Rescuers formed human chains to remove bricks and masonry, stopping every few minutes to listen for signs of life from those trapped below.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

“Richmond has this really sort of amazing legacy of masonry and brick facades,” Diamond said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Here was the city’s historic souk, now a disfigured maw of masonry and rebar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

Renata Pintus, who heads the masonry department at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence's famous restoration workshop, told AFP it had been a "privilege" to work on Giotto's famous fresco cycle.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

He jammed his knee against the masonry and let out a gasp.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth.

From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The speaker was a man named Jack Stagg, with whom Jude had formerly worked in repairing the college masonries; Tinker Taylor was seen to be standing near.

From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

The portals of the palaces of Venice have one or other of these masonries, almost without exception.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin

Stately masonries, long-drawn arches, cloisters, sounding aisles buttress it, begirdle it far and wide.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle

Some time later he went to a church-builder in the same place, and under the architect's direction became handy at restoring the dilapidated masonries of several village churches round about.

From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy