Sentence examples for surrounding bricks from inspiring English sources

The sand is an aggregate that softens the mortar and allows it to expand and contract with the surrounding bricks.

But as I patiently listen to cats snoozing in the living room of a rustic country home, it hits me that the person I'm waiting to interview has been so successful that he bought the surrounding bricks and mortar last year when he was aged just eight.

Ivy climbing the surrounding brick walls gives the space the feeling of a small cavern.

Work carefully to remove the old mortar without damaging the surrounding brick.

And to offset the feeling of enclosure created by a surrounding brick wall, he filled it with a "miniature forest of flowers and trees," he said.

Even a little noise — a moderate conversation, the occasional guffaw — can shatter the peace inside nearby homes once it has bounced off the surrounding brick and concrete walls.

Under Mr. Kennon's plan, the open courtyard, which he called a prosaic space at the bottom of a light well formed by surrounding brick buildings, becomes a central feature, a glassed-in parlor more than 11 feet high where clients and friends can sit and speak about Kandinsky or Kant — or the in-laws.

With its gleaming white facade and stacked ionic columns, it stands out starkly from surrounding brick structures and looks like something straight out of "Gone With The Wind" (hence, its name).

Though the new tower, designed by ZGF Architects, doesn't stick to the historical aesthetic of the surrounding brick and stone buildings, the Pioneer Square Preservation Board doesn't seem to mind.

Remove the broken brick by drilling a series of holes through the mortar surrounding the brick.

The skyscrapers and high-rises framed the firey orb which lit up the surrounding glass, brick and stone buildings spectacularly.