Sentence examples for couple bricks from inspiring English sources

You could also take a chimney apart—grab a couple bricks and throw those.

"They take out a couple of bricks every couple of days," he says.

Place a couple of bricks or a concrete block at either end of the rack.

But they also were armed with a couple of bricks taken from one of their homes.

PARELES -- There's the White Stripes album, which I think is also a couple of bricks short of a load.

They found a couple of bricks, piled one on top of the other, and took turns standing on them to look in the window.

Ben Ratliff rated the White Stripes' "Elephant" as the fourth best album of the year, yet was quick to agree with Jon Pareles that the album was "a couple of bricks short of a load" ["Tasteful Imitations and Sagging Follow-Ups"].

When, in the early 1980s, mobile phones were the size of a couple of bricks and were operated with some difficulty and theatrical pretension by early model, red-braced yuppies and bullish property developers in big City suits, the traditional red GPO phone box, still seemed to be in with a chance.

It's only when you watch a gang of raggedy kids construct a wicket from a couple of bricks on a gravel-strewn vacant lot next to a shanty town, and then watch them play a pick-up game with fire and flair worthy of a one-day international, that you realise the creative intensity of south Asian cricket, and the scale of its betrayal.

A couple of bricks are missing from a waist-level wall that leads to the front entrance, where a mail-slot cover is bent jaggedly.

As a kid, I was convinced that my mom and her friends just had to carry around all sorts of magical items, plus a couple of bricks.