brickyard
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of brickyard
Example Sentences
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"They are very small and it could have easily bitten someone and it seems he has been in the brickyard for about a month," he said.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2021
His brother, Walter, operated brickyard No. 3 until it closed, in 1952.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2021
“This was basically all a skate park,” said Taylor Bruck, 30, who grew up in Kingston and whose great-great-grandfather worked at a brickyard in Glasco, 10 miles north.
From New York Times • May 21, 2021
Since it was built on an old brickyard in 1905 by the “two-story king of East Baltimore,” hundreds of people have called the block home.
From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2017
Where we had a big fireplace and mantel made out of bricks from the Settlement’s brickyard, they still had a fireplace made out of clay and rocks.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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