Sentence examples for bricks off from inspiring English sources

Two summers ago, Jake Delhomme and his father spent a stretch of a bayou summer in Breaux Bridge, La., pulling bricks off a small, old house.

"The moment of truth," Barry said, holding down the fluted dustbin lid by its handle while he nudged the piled bricks off with his foot.

TRAMPLING weeds underfoot, a group of people bound excitedly into an abandoned cemetery for Tamil Tiger rebels, hack bricks off the once pristine tombs and throw them into a waiting van.

Worst moment: Knocking a few bricks off his "George the Builder" metaphor, by highlighting the extension of the right to buy to housing association tenants as something that can help to solve the housing crisis.

Seeing Red Over Blue Bricks After a two-year court battle, workers are moving ahead to strip the signature blue bricks off the facade of the co-op apartment house at 27 East 65th Street, at the corner of Madison Avenue.

In Lennon's zany, entertaining novel, the megalomaniacal Happy Masters goes even further, strong-arming the town mayor and the beleaguered president of the local all-female college, buying up businesses and even hiring someone to drop bricks off the roof of the college library, injuring two students, to prove she needs to build another.

The idea was to brick off these openings and install a few polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, tubes, open to the outside to allow mosquitoes in; inside the house, the tubes are closed off by an electrostatic netting coated with an insecticide.

The bathroom was generous and done out in polished limestone and rough bricks, signed off with a selection of naturally made Bamford bath products.

Other neighbors said they had noticed structural damage to their own homes, including cracks in the walls and bricks falling off their facades, since the construction started a few months ago.

More site-specifically, Peter Gould cleverly redesigned the guard station into a three-dimensional cartoon with a bright green Formica desk top on stacked bricks set off against a small forest of green tree silhouettes.

A man in Denmark was killed when a brick fell off a building and hit his head.