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13 example sentences for MORTAR, such as:
1. He planned to grind the spices in a mortar.
2. Aramis, not liking to soil his boots with this artificial mortar, apostrophized them rather sharply.
3. The stones are big and roughly cut, and the mortar has by process of time been washed away between them.
4. One of the posts, Vyselky, was attacked with mortar and sniper fire for half an hour, border guards said.
5. Workmen in aprons, standing on scaffolds, were laying bricks, pouring mortar out of vats, and smoothing it with trowels.
2. Aramis, not liking to soil his boots with this artificial mortar, apostrophized them rather sharply.
3. The stones are big and roughly cut, and the mortar has by process of time been washed away between them.
4. One of the posts, Vyselky, was attacked with mortar and sniper fire for half an hour, border guards said.
5. Workmen in aprons, standing on scaffolds, were laying bricks, pouring mortar out of vats, and smoothing it with trowels.
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Meanings and Examples of MORTAR
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mortar
v. plaster with mortar
n. a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
Classic Sentence:
1 The timbers beneath are of a peculiar strength, fitted to sustain the weight of an almost solid mass of brick and mortar, some ten feet by eight square, and five in height.
2 You would have almost thought they were pulling down the cursed Bastille, such wild cries they raised, as the now useless brick and mortar were being hurled into the sea.
3 Alike, joy and sorrow, hope and fear, seemed ground to finest dust, and powdered, for the time, in the clamped mortar of Ahab's iron soul.
4 You might fire off a mortar and it would produce about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a drunken man.
5 This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the fine, fresh plaster.
6 Aramis, not liking to soil his boots with this artificial mortar, apostrophized them rather sharply.
7 Ben Weatherstaff had seen it done and had himself scraped out mortar from between the bricks of the wall and made pockets of earth for lovely clinging things to grow on.
8 Workmen in aprons, standing on scaffolds, were laying bricks, pouring mortar out of vats, and smoothing it with trowels.
9 Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of revellers.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
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Context Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
10 The stones are big and roughly cut, and the mortar has by process of time been washed away between them.
Example Sentence:
1 He planned to grind the spices in a mortar.
2 It is so difficult to hurt anyone actually in trenches; I think a mortar is the only thing that can do so.
3 One of the posts, Vyselky, was attacked with mortar and sniper fire for half an hour, border guards said.