BRICK in a Sentence

Learn BRICK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

156 example sentences for BRICK, such as:

1. The school is built of brick.
2. A brick wall would be put upa labor.
3. He got a job at the local brick works.
4. Someone had flung a brick through the window.
5. The house is enclosed with a high brick wall.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRICK
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brick
 n.  rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
 n.  a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
Classic Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1  Young Ethan Frome walked at a quick pace along the deserted street, past the bank and Michael Eady's new brick store and Lawyer Varnum's house with the two black Norway spruces at the gate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  It was a savagely red land, blood-colored after rains, brick dust in droughts, the best cotton land in the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Here under his feet would rise a house of whitewashed brick.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  The houses were farther and farther apart now, and leaning out Scarlett saw the red brick and slate roof of Miss Pittypat's house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  She had a child but he was cared for so well by the others in the red brick house she could almost forget him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  And Scarlett, flying up the stairs with a hot brick wrapped in flannel, found Rhett patting her hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  But Melanie reefed up her top hoop a little higher to hide her thickening figure and the wounded invaded the brick house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  She passed the clump of cedars and the low brick wall which marked the family burying ground, trying not to think of the new grave lying by the three short mounds of her little brothers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  Life in the pleasant brick house on Peachtree Street, the only life he knew, had vanished that night and he would never recover from its loss.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  Well, it's made of brick and it's got about the only slate roof in Atlanta and that kept the sparks from setting it afire, I guess.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  The ones who come back last won't find a stick or stone or brick of their houses, because everybody's out salvaging things all over town to rebuild their houses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  Just day before yesterday, I saw Mrs. Merriwether and Miss Maybelle and their old darky woman out collecting brick in a wheelbarrow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  There were the remains of a few buildings she remembered, roofless brick walls through which the dull daylight shone, glassless windows gaping, chimneys towering lonesomely.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
15  Even the foundation stones and the brick chimneys were gone and there were wagon tracks where they had been carted away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  It has a basic construction of brick under a tiled roof.
2  He took it apart brick by brick, and put it back together again.
3  He made a surreptitious entrance to the club through the little door in the brick wall.
4  The house is enclosed with a high brick wall.
5  Someone had flung a brick through the window.
6  Remember, the brick walls are there for a reason.
7  He got a job at the local brick works.
8  A brick wall would be put upa labor.
9  We tied this letter to a brick and threw it over the railing.
10  Arches are built of wood, stone, brick or any other building material.
11  The school is built of brick.
12  But over time, this ultra-thin cement paste on the top surface of the brick wears off, exposing the true color of the sand and gravel.
13  It is important to insulate the furnace from any neighboring woodwork with brick and asbestos.
14  The jail was a little brick den that stood at the edge of the village, and no guards were afforded for it.
15  The jail was a trifling little brick den that stood in a marsh at the edge of the village.