How to Use brickyard in a Sentence

brickyard

noun

• At the brickyard outside Dhubri, most of the loaders carting raw bricks to the kilns were women.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 11 Sep. 2019
• The oldest home on the tour is the Dailey House, built circa 1890 out of bricks from the Escondido brickyard.
  — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 May 2017
• These two events would eventually force Ruben to drop out of school at 15 to support his mother and siblings by taking a job at the Pueblo brickyard.
  — Alex Burness, The Denver Post, 28 Nov. 2019
• But soon after his brickyard triumph, Petillo was having frequent scrapes with the law.
  — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2018
• Soon Luigi was working at a brickyard and then later in a power plant for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
• After the last area brickyard closed in 1941, marinas generally replaced them.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• And contract laborer Shazima Kathum, 24, shares the same fate as roughly 12 million other workers toiling in such dusty brickyards.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 11 Sep. 2019
• In the northern portion, William operated a prosperous brickyard.
  — Susan Hodara, New York Times, 3 May 2017
• By the early 20th century, as part of the Great Migration, Black Southerners were also being recruited by brickyard owners, who would pay for their travel expenses.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2021
• The couple eventually settled in Pennsylvania, working in the brickyards.
  — Joy Johnston, ajc, 11 May 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024