Sentence examples for under a brick from inspiring English sources

(Published Sept. 17, 1997) CHICKEN UNDER A BRICK So popular that a group in Santa Cruz, Calif., made a T-shirt that reads, "We love chicken under a brick".

You can also cook your butterflied bird under a brick.

Clem's early sexual imaginings exist in "fingery darkness like woodlice under a brick".

Cooked under a brick, a small whole flattened chicken was crisped yet succulent.

Of course, Wonder Bread would be heavenly under a brick of its foie gras".

Follow with strip steak, branzino or an excellent chicken, cooked under a brick.

At first blush, the Ciénega seems run of the mill, tule grass the height of a person or taller emerging from a labyrinth of streams and ponds under a brick-oven sun.

Of the entrees, Cornish hen al Mattone grilled and flattened under the weight of a brick (the mattone) came beautifully charred and juicy throughout.

One minute, the Marrow would send out something as concise and well considered as an appetizer of shredded duck leg pressed into a brick under a crackling sheet of skin, with a top layer of huckleberries providing all the counterpoint that the duck needed.

In the 1970s, the receipt of a Fisher Price farm set on Christmas Day would have conferred nothing terribly distinctive about class, having come from a department store and having appeared just as probably under the tree of a white-shoe lawyer as it would have under the tree of a brick layer.

Black polyethylene sheets were placed on the ground surface before arranging the polybags on the sheet with a brick under each polybag to prevent root growing into the ground.