masonryin a sentence
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Falling masonry is dangerous in an earthquake.masonry = stone or brick parts of a structure
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At the moment... there came, first a rumbling, then a creaking, and then a roar of falling masonry, (source)
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...met every evening on a masonry platform under a great fig-tree. (source)masonry = stone or brick
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What I had taken for masonry seemed now to be iron, or some other metal, in huge plates, (source)masonry = stone or brick parts of a structure such as a building or wall
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Six decades ago in this enchanting hideaway, less than a mile downstream from where the Mormon steps meet the floor of the gulch, twenty-year-old Everett Ruess carved his nom de plume into the canyon wall below a panel of Anasazi pictographs, and he did so again in the doorway of a small masonry structure built by the Anasazi for storing grain.† (source)
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Somewhere a wall goes to pieces, a thousand kilograms of masonry crashing down.† (source)
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As they walked, Hazel ran her hands along the masonry.† (source)
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The speaker was a man named Jack Stagg, with whom Jude had formerly worked in repairing the college masonries; Tinker Taylor was seen to be standing near.† (source)
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Keystones as a masonry technique for building stone archways had been one of the best-kept secrets of the early Masonic brotherhood.† (source)
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Passing out into the streets on this errand he found that the colleges had treacherously changed their sympathetic countenances: some were pompous; some had put on the look of family vaults above ground; something barbaric loomed in the masonries of all.† (source)
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Malfoy and Goyle had vanished but at the end of the corridor, which was now full of dust and falling masonry, glass long gone from windows, he saw many people running backward and forward, whether friends or foes he could not tell.† (source)
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Some time later he went to a church-builder in the same place, and under the architect's direction became handy at restoring the dilapidated masonries of several village churches round about.† (source)
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No way to pull them out once they've buried themselves in the masonry; you'd end up pulling the whole building down.† (source)
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Not to consider here anything except the Christian architecture of Europe, that younger sister of the great masonries of the Orient, it appears to the eyes as an immense formation divided into three well-defined zones, which are superposed, the one upon the other: the Romanesque zone*, the Gothic zone, the zone of the Renaissance, which we would gladly call the Greco-Roman zone.† (source)
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"Emma's right," Millard said, lying on the ground with a chunk of broken masonry under his head for a pillow.† (source)
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I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth.† (source)
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