Examples of brickwork in a Sentence
Some of the brickwork is in need of repair.
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Too many houses in rural areas stand empty and deteriorating: windows boarded up, yards littered with junk, brickwork greening with algae.
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Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Others could only lay an unusual type of brick or could only lay one particular brickwork pattern.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
Sides of stone buildings, distant brickwork, walls of glass that faced south toward the sun, all gleamed with a transfixing brilliance.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
Plazas and courtyards contain feathery mesquite and blue-green palo verde trees and employ brickwork that blends with the buildings themselves.
—Sam Lubell, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
This symmetry and regularity can seem mundane and almost invisible, as with brickwork on building walls or the hexagonal pattern in a honeycomb.
—Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
Think of fencing or brickwork painted in Green Smoke to accentuate flowering plants.
—Elizabeth Sweet, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2023
Inside, vines climb up the brickwork, and diners can watch the stars emerge during their meal through the glass panes that make up the building’s sloped roof.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 14 July 2023
There are replacements and repairs to do on the exterior brickwork, the chimney and one of the fireplaces.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2023
Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Others could only lay an unusual type of brick or could only lay one particular brickwork pattern.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
Sides of stone buildings, distant brickwork, walls of glass that faced south toward the sun, all gleamed with a transfixing brilliance.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
Plazas and courtyards contain feathery mesquite and blue-green palo verde trees and employ brickwork that blends with the buildings themselves.
—Sam Lubell, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
This symmetry and regularity can seem mundane and almost invisible, as with brickwork on building walls or the hexagonal pattern in a honeycomb.
—Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
Think of fencing or brickwork painted in Green Smoke to accentuate flowering plants.
—Elizabeth Sweet, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2023
Inside, vines climb up the brickwork, and diners can watch the stars emerge during their meal through the glass panes that make up the building’s sloped roof.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 14 July 2023
There are replacements and repairs to do on the exterior brickwork, the chimney and one of the fireplaces.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2023
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“Brickwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brickwork. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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brickwork
noun
brick·work
ˈbrik-ˌwərk 
: work made of bricks and mortar
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