Sentence examples for mortar off from inspiring English sources

"The firemen come and hose them down and shoot all that mortar off with the high-pressure hose," said Alderman Samuel Moore, whose predominantly black Fourth Ward has been hit particularly hard by brick thieves.

When you get home, you find you must carefully clean all the old mortar off, and separate all the bricks, because you cannot lay the bricks neatly into the new wall if they are not separate and clean.

One crew, "doing nothing but cleaning old bricks," has so far scraped the mortar off 20,000 of them.

The rites are symbolically performed by workers fashioning her resting place, with a mason flicking mortar off his trowel, an act of benediction.

The mason who set the terra cotta tiles over the vault flicked the mortar off his trowel when he finished in a way that seemed like a benediction to her son.

On both sides of the stage women in slightly more contemporary rags knock the mortar off broken bricks, then begin to place them in rows, a symbol of reconstruction.

The fall in the value of the pound since the EU referendum has given wealthy global shoppers like them a further incentive to buy future London bricks and mortar "off-plan", and changes in stamp duty and levies on second homes have made purchasing handfuls of units of half-built suburban housing more profitable than buying fewer of them in Kensington.

"At 3 A.M., we had live mortars going off," Murnion said.

It showed players training for games as if there were Green Berets, and mortars going off on the field and everything.

Al Shabaab had reportedly targeted the palace but the mortars went off some distance away, ending up about 300 meters from the nearby house of parliament.

American tactics intended to overwhelm an enemy and minimize casualties -- like hovering helicopter gunships and firing off mortar rounds as a warning -- frighten and alienate Afghans, they said.