brick wall
noun
1
: a wall made of brick
2
: an immovable block or obstruction
the plan ran into a brick wall
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On the brick wall facing the Pittsburg Hot Links parking lot, a mural memorializes the small East Texas town’s most famous citizens, including Mean Gene the Hot Link King and Homer Jones, the New York Giants receiver who invented spiking the football after a touchdown.
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Melinda Newman, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2025
In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa Street from a quiet wilderness filled with graves.
—Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
The museum building itself is also art visitors should notice — there are fossils, petrified wood and arrowheads in the brick walls.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Feb. 2025
Converting the back brick wall into a glass one is, in fact, often the first thing architects recommend during a townhouse renovation.
—Clio Chang, Curbed, 28 Feb. 2025
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Melinda Newman, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2025
In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa Street from a quiet wilderness filled with graves.
—Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
The museum building itself is also art visitors should notice — there are fossils, petrified wood and arrowheads in the brick walls.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Feb. 2025
Converting the back brick wall into a glass one is, in fact, often the first thing architects recommend during a townhouse renovation.
—Clio Chang, Curbed, 28 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for brick wall
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“Brick wall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brick%20wall. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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