brick-wall
Example Sentences
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Swaine ran up against a brick wall — until he found a whistleblower who had a cache of documents.
From Salon • Jun. 25, 2026
But a huge brick wall on the Springfield/Springmartin Road in Belfast effectively stops them being neighbours and makes that a 20 to 30 minute walk.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
“We’ve created a system on the ocean geared for volume and velocity—you can move lots of goods quickly and what we’re seeing is, it’s like hitting a brick wall at 100 miles an hour.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
A courtyard ringed by a brick wall anchors the buildings, and neighbors are invited to paint on it.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
She seemed cheerful and chattered about how our new home was in a large building that housed three other families and had a brick wall all around it.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
