bricks

Example Sentences

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Two teenage sisters from Gaza have won an environmental award for turning rubble into reusable bricks, saying they wanted to "turn destruction into something useful".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

The memes imitate a form we associate with Lego without using actual bricks or the company’s logo.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

The process of turning the sophisticated machine into a pile of bricks began a few years ago, when Lenssen brought his young children to a Lego fair in the Netherlands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

“I’d trained hard, put 60 pounds of bricks in my backpack,” he told National Geographic Adventure magazine in 2003.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Instead of being on a wooden post, it was on a brick column; at the top, the bricks encircled the entire box in a graceful arc.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix