Sentence examples for house bricks from inspiring English sources

We will need house bricks of cheap sugary white bread, and barrels of brown sauce.

But when River Phoenix died from a drugs overdose outside Johnny Depp's Los Angeles club, the Viper Room, mobile phones were still the size of house bricks.

It is fascinating to discover that a tiny smear of green liquid beside a spoonful of white granita on a plate is Danish squid with green strawberries and verbena oil, or that a couple of house bricks covered with powdered flowers is herb toast with turbot roe.

So a promising new "stress-transfer" theory, which sets out to explain how an earthquake in one place affects the probability of subsequent earthquakes nearby, is causing a bit of a rumble.One of the theory's leading proponents, Ross Stein of the US Geological Survey, likes to explain its underlying principles with a string of house bricks interconnected by elastic "bungee" cords.

Thus, on 31 October 1997, K2 Plant Hire announced "The People's Pyramid", an estimated 150 feet-high structure built from as many house bricks as there were British 20th century births (estimated by the duo as 87 million), with no cost to the taxpayer.

The structure of her house – bricks made of mud, a dirt floor and a corrugated metal roof – stands as a reminder that Mariama lives in one of the five poorest countries in the world.

You want tea the colour of a house brick.

"Was the house brick or clay?" "Brick," Safar's mother said.

Once he walked from Coventry to Birmingham, backwards and with a house brick on his head.

Replacing a house brick by brick doesn't allow major changes to the architecture along the way.

If all else fails, you could probably coat a house brick in sweets and buttercream to good effect.