Sentence examples for brick rubble from inspiring English sources

Channels were constructed of cut stone, brick, rubble, or rough concrete.

The storm tore off the top floor of the original school building, built in 1927, scattering brick rubble below.

Rambling, oblique, maddeningly repetitive, violent yet often savagely funny, played out on stages piled with earth, or brick rubble, or fields of fake flowers, her work resists categorisation as dance, drama or installation art.

Back at the headquarters building, sitting on the balcony amid the brick rubble and dust, he said he had lost three of his best commanders and some 30 officers in this week's battle.

The green material was seen as a cleaner alternative to red clay courts, many of which had been built in the United States from the brick rubble of European buildings destroyed in World War I; the material was transported across the Atlantic as ballast in the hulls of ships.

This is just an aside about influence, but there's a real conversation going on between Carl Andre's 1966 Equivalent VIII, his once-notorious bricks, Richard Long's line of white lumps of chalk from 1984, and a 1966 work, a wall-bound cast of a patch of London wasteground, which itself includes stray bits of brick rubble, by the Boyle Family.

All that's left is a stretch of red-brick rubble, with the shambling buildings of Congress Street in the background.

Officials cautioned that many more bodies might lie under clay-brick rubble in the villages of Qataniyah and Jazeera, where almost every house was flattened by the quick succession of suicide explosions Tuesday night.

MARJA, Afghanistan — Twelve bodies — five children, five women and two men — were wrapped head to toe in woolen blankets, lying in a neat row on the floor of the only room remaining in a house that had been blasted to mud-brick rubble by at least one and possibly two 675-pound rockets.

JOPLIN, Mo. — When the schools here were reduced to red-brick rubble in the deadly tornado three months ago, abruptly ending classes just before final exams, district leaders made a promise that seemed like a long shot: the new school year would start on time.

Yesterday some of the results of the strike were very clear: three ruined houses, mud-brick rubble scattered across the steeply terraced fields, the bodies of livestock lying where thrown by the airblast, a row of newly dug graves in the village cemetery and torn green and red embroidered blankets flapping in the chilly wind.