Example Sentences

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My old detachable USB-C power meter is a bit more... bricklike than even the new standalones you can buy today.

From The Verge • Jan. 28, 2022

Among the works produced specifically for “Wall” is Erwin Timmers’s sculpture, in which a mound, made of green glass but suggestive of flesh, pushes through a bricklike pattern.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2019

His most authentic flourish, however, may be the window frames on one building: They’re staggered to create a bricklike pattern.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2016

One picture shows the plain, bricklike underbelly of the space shuttle Endeavor; another is a glimpse into the serpentine insides of a nuclear fusion reactor being built in Greifswald, Germany.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2010

He stretches back and clasps his hands over his massive, bricklike midsection.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone