How to Use mortar in a Sentence

mortar

noun

• The goal from the start was always to open a brick and mortar, Jones said.
  — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2023
• For bricks and the mortar joints between the bricks and the tiles, use a stiff brush to scrub away any loose grit.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• The air from the blower drives the sealer deep into the brick and mortar.
  — Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• The first sale will start online Nov. 8 and hit brick and mortar stores on Nov. 10.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
• To the mortar, add the chiles, garlic, and shallot and pound until bruised.
  — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 10 Aug. 2023
• Step 2 To the mortar, add the green beans and tomatoes and lightly pound to extract their juices.
  — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 10 Aug. 2023
• Piles of empty bullet shells and the remnants of at least one mortar lie on the ground.
  — Zeena Saifi, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
• The detonation of an 82mm mortar shell down in the city, or on our hill, or on the next one.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 7 Dec. 2022
• All the bricks were cleaned of their old mortar by volunteers.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
• Reaching out of the trench to pick up one of their drones, a mortar shell exploded in front of his face.
  — Guy Davies, ABC News, 24 July 2023
• The best tools for doing this are a mortar and pestle or an electric spice grinder.
  — Carly Westerfield, Bon Appétit, 9 Mar. 2024
• Brick-and-mortar stores used to be key for the retail industry.
  — Sharon Harris, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• But the Ample Hills owners are doubling down on brick and mortar.
  — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• The music was so loud that at least some in the crowd had no idea mortars and rockets were hammering in the distance.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2023
• Lumberjack crawled into a crater, but the shrapnel from a mortar went through the soil and pierced his shoulder.
  — Samantha Schmidt and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2023
• Rojo chimichurri, an herb sauce, is made fresh at the table with a mortar and pestle.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 7 Aug. 2023
• Emollients are oils and lipids that relieve dry, itchy skin by filling in the gaps between the skin cells, sort of like the mortar between bricks.
  — Sarah Klein, SELF, 5 Jan. 2024
• Wallflowers have even been known to thrive growing between the mortar in stone walls (thus, their name!).
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 4 Feb. 2023
• Using a molcajete or mortar and pestle, grind the bones to a fine paste, then add them to the chochoyotes dough in step 6.
  — Obed Vallejo, Saveur, 28 Mar. 2024
• Once completely dry, grind the nutmeats with a coffee grinder or mortar and pestle to reach the texture of a flour.
  — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 2 May 2023
• Step 2 In a small food processor or mortar and pestle, blend the pecorino, 3 tablespoons of the oil, the oregano, thyme, and garlic to a paste.
  — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 18 Jan. 2024
• Outside the gates of the kibbutz, soldiers loaded mortar shells into tubes to fire toward the strip.
  — Baz Ratner, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• Using a spice grinder or a mortar and pestle, grind the mixture into a fine powder.
  — Jing Gao, Saveur, 31 Jan. 2024
• The trenches are constructed with bends to contain a blast should a mortar or grenade land inside.
  — Tyler Hicks Marc Santora, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
• Nowadays, the 40 red bricks that used to form a cross over the main entrance have mostly been ripped out, replaced by mortar or nothing at all.
  — The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
• The color and consistency reminds Jews of the bricks and mortar used by Israelite slaves.
  — Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2024
• The mortar includes lipids, such as ceramides, cholesterol, and free fatty acids.
  — Lisa Desantis, Health, 22 Mar. 2024
• The attacking forces, which include at least one T-72 tank and mortars for fire support, even pushed into the larger city of Grayvoron.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2023
• The shock wave from the mortar’s report reverberated down the length of the bunker, compressing lungs and rattling teeth.
  — Michael Schwirtz David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2023
• For a manguelo, roughly 12 layers of bricks are required and are placed using mud as mortar.
  — Monica Serrano, National Geographic, 19 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024