brick wall

noun

1

: a wall made of brick

2

: an immovable block or obstruction

the plan ran into a brick wall

Examples of brick wall in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

When the pair tumbled to the bottom, the 250-pound, six-foot-two son beat his mother with his fists, a stick and a bottle before slamming her head into a brick wall next to the parkway, Kenny said. —Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 17 July 2024

During the storm in 2008, roughly eight feet of water filled the city’s streets; 110-mile-per-hour gales whipped the building’s brick walls. —Xander Peters, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024

Bare brick walls, stone columns, and vaulted ceilings give the place a kind of antique intimacy. —Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024

Here, German-Danish designer Gesa Hansen has created a whimsical melange of texture: brick walls, leather banquettes, playful carpeting, abstract wallpaper, slender mid-century wood chairs, and mix-and-match tilework. —Chadner Navarro, Vogue, 6 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1