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

The boutique property is warm, cozy (some rooms even have their own fireplace), and filled with history and personality; note the original brick walls. —Jacqueline Kehoe, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2025

The charred, jagged remains of brick walls claw against the gray sky, after Russian projectiles tore off the front of an apartment building in this the western Ukrainian city. —Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 23 Nov. 2025

Guest rooms highlight the raw materials of the space — brick walls, exposed industrial elements and wooden beams — anchored by oversized, arched windows. —Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 18 Nov. 2025

There was a brick wall that separated me eating my lunch from a crowd of people that were angry as hell. —Glenn Garner, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for brick wall

• aldol
• armhole
• atoll
• awol
• backhaul
• banal
• baseball
• befall
• cabal
• catchall
• cecal
• centrale