brickwork
Example Sentences
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On Wednesday, the artists discovered graffiti had been sprayed on the brickwork and windows around the new entrance on River Drive.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025
Some of Mr Iliffe's neighbours also suffered damage to their properties - with other aerials destroyed, brickwork damaged, roof tiles blown off, and one with the windows blown out of his greenhouse.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2024
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
The city designations mean that Stonewall’s current owners can’t alter the building’s brickwork or flower boxes or signage without permission from the Landmarks commissioners.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2024
Running diagonally across the pool, from the brickwork of the bridge near the opposite bank to a point a little below them on their own side, was a grating of thin, vertical iron rods.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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