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

Meanwhile, portable phones, at first the size of bricks, were introduced in 1992.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

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

From Salon • Apr. 26, 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

I grabbed the shears from his hand and threw them, with a clatter, on the bricks.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt