Sentence examples for brick- from inspiring English sources

She recalls asking the question, "among the brick chimneys: 'When will I see my parents?'", and the hollow mirth that greeted it among those in her berth.

At first glance, it's an unremarkable red brick warehouse, one of a handful on Chicago's west side that used to belong to Sears Roebuck, complete with roll-up aluminum doors.

Hospital patients with views of trees rather than of brick walls stay in hospitals for far less time.

At the heart of the concrete and brick labyrinth of Milton Keynes, hard by Midsummer Boulevard, a certified national treasure has been identified.

Last week a group of men with learning disabilities was rescued from a brick kiln in central China.

From the distant steps of the newly opened war monument it didn't so much resemble a double-sided statue as a displaced Besser brick – an odd disjunctive barrier to the eye following the otherwise unbroken land axis.

His daughter Barb still lives in the modern brick house Geoff built in Mount Nancy camp.

After almost two decades of planning and six years of building, the transformation of King's Cross station from a shabby crime spot to a gleaming public space has been completed with the opening of a 7,000 sq metre (75,000 sq ft) plaza, revealing the original brick facade for the first time in 150 years.

From the million-pound apartments of Deansgate to the red-brick terraces of Moston, so many tens of thousands of people here didn't bother to vote at the last election that Lucy Powell, the incumbent Labour MP, was elected in a 2012 byelection with just 12% support in the lowest parliamentary poll turn out since 1945.

It's smack bang middle of Brookvale, nestled between the red-brick rooftops of the 'burbs and the semi-industrial bad-lands of mechanics and steel-fitters, and more brothels than an Abbott-voting electorate probably realises are there.

Now, they peer out from shaded watchtowers at miles of flat water meadows where sheep graze and, on the northern horizon, at a low brown mud-brick village with some trees.