mortar

Example Sentences

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The workers have carefully recreated this indigenous mortar, once widely used in the Mughal era, but now largely replaced by cement in modern construction.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

Now, the tech company is hitting back at Walmart in bricks and mortar retail, proposing to build a 225,000 square-foot store located in suburban Chicago.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

And this is not some archaic cinderblock and mortar contraption: It’s a top-of-the-line, high-tech fabrication.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2025

“Paint traps moisture, ruins the mortar, weakens and cracks the rock,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

She hauled it back to the kitchen hut and poured the grains into a mortar made from a tree trunk.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer