cinderblock

• “I recently learned that Billy has been putting on a one-man science show, which includes laying down on a bed of nails and having someone break a cinderblock on his chest with a sledgehammer.”

  The Port Discover Science Center

• “Admittedly, the sternum is a tough one, but if you can break a cinderblock with the heel of your hand, you can probably crack somebody's sternum, and if This Person were really so knowledgable about assassins and fighting, s/he would know that.”

  Archive 2004-12-01

• “In the cinderblock hallway behind the stage there was a pay phone and a stack of milkcrates piled at the approximate height of a chair.”

  ceciliatan: Have We Got Contact

• “Is this the protection of civilians? said local resident Rajab Sharaf, standing outside the burning building as the cinderblock walls buckled outward from the heat.”

  USA Today: Libyan government shows reporters NATO bomb sites

• “Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal The top floor of the two-story cinderblock building is devoted to packing and storage.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Making of an Iconic Ball

• “The top floor of the two-story cinderblock building off Connecticut's Route 8 is devoted to packing and storage.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Making a Wiffle Ball

• “It was pitch-black at the bottom of the stairway, but then the rabbi flipped the light switch and David saw a large room with cinderblock walls.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Omega Theory

• “The air was warm and acrid and the cinderblock walls were caked with soot.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Omega Theory

• “Ouattara forces inspect the papers of everyone who passes through a checkpoint in the Riviera neighborhood as young men build cinderblock barricades.”

  Voice of America: Ouattara Forces Move to Round Up Gbagbo Militants in Abidjan

• “Love the juxtaposition of old warm luxury colored persian carpet/new industrial utilitarian cinderblock walls.”

  The Chadwick Studio by Frederick Fisher and Partners

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