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Mortar in sentence

48 examples of Mortar in a sentence

We hate this mortar, to stand hours and hours.
We can experience that powerful thing called anticipation, which is a mortar to desire.
First, bricks and mortar cost money.
What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks.
And the key ingredients are known: policy, education and training, systems, bricks and mortar.
Incoming mortar rounds are exploding all around you.
One day I picked up this unexploded mortar shell in a trench, and I had it deposited in a makeshift mud hut lab.
In 1935, the Italian Corps of Engineers injected mortar to strengthen the base.
However, the mortar wasn’t evenly distributed throughout the foundation, resulting in another sudden drop.
And what happens if you build a brick wall too high without mortar?
It acts like a mortar and it holds those bricks together.
The overall effect is like removing all of the nails and mortar from a house and then hitting it with an earthquake.
A marketplace was hit by a mortar shell that killed several members of a single family.
Look for the painfully obvious special effects mortar cannon that is visible in the street during a chase scene.
I work 12 hour nights, 6 days a week, I've seen several thousand in the year I've been out here and this was so bad that half way through i was hoping for a mortar attack.
This movie uniquely brings hope regarding the human condition - even as men are ground within the mortar and pestle of war - they can look beyond themselves . .
The mythos behind plot is very good, Russian mafia has this demon do there dirty work and the rainbow array of inmates have to defend their bars & mortar.
Three Israeli civilians have been killed by rocket or mortar fire from Gaza, and 64 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the ground invasion began.
Civilians are killed daily in Mogadishu, there are roadside bombs and mortar attacks, and politicians and journalists are targeted.
The free press is both the mortar that holds in place the bricks of our country’s freedom, and the open window embedded in those bricks.
But most buildings today are constructed using bricks and mortar, concrete, and, for larger structures, steel – all materials that produce substantial carbon emissions during the manufacturing process.
For the Israelis, the public statements of Palestinian armed groups celebrating rocket and mortar attacks on civilians strengthen a deep-rooted concern that negotiation will yield little and that their nation remains under existential threat from which only it can protect its people.
The main assault force advanced toward the target in the darkness until detected, then rushed forward, firing every weapon, while mortar and machine-gun emplacements remained in the rear, firing just ahead of the advancing troops.
Workmen wearing aprons stood on the scaffolding laying bricks, pouring water from wooden pails, or smoothing the mortar.
Avoiding the pit from which the men were taking mortar, he stopped and began heatedly discussing something with the architect.
She is not acting a part, she dares to listen to her heart; and so, two letters daily.''Never, never!' said Julien, losing courage; 'I would let myself be brayed in a mortar sooner than compose three sentences; I am a corpse, my dear fellow, expect nothing more of me.
It is more like a stage village than one built of bricks and mortar.
Breakfast over, Aunt Polly had family worship: it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, as from Sinai.
The course of meat finished, they spread upon the sheepskins a great heap of parched acorns, and with them they put down a half cheese harder than if it had been made of mortar.
"That is the truth, senor," said one of the twelve; "we have not the money to get ourselves shaved, and so we have, some of us, taken to using sticking-plasters by way of an economical remedy, for by applying them to our faces and plucking them off with a jerk we are left as bare and smooth as the bottom of a stone mortar.