breeze block

Example Sentences

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It is set back along a series of winding, loose rock roads, in a gritty neighborhood of one story, breeze block buildings.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2019

Nearly 70 years on, some of those refugees and many of their descendants continue to live in camps, which are now chronically overcrowded breeze block neighbourhoods.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2018

The houses are built of breeze block and have battered, rusting roofs.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2014

Mr Copp said the wall was 6ft high and 10ft long and comprised of a breeze block front, asbestos sides and a corrugated metal roof.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2013

But I watched the Wall's progress from barbed wire to breeze block; I watched the ramparts of the cold war going up on the still-warm ashes of the hot one.

From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2013