Cold, white cinder-block fences surround bunkerlike buildings. From Wordnik.com. [Roses are Red]
The school spread in cinder-block chunks bridged by covered walkways. From Wordnik.com. [For A Day] Reference
A snack bar and rest rooms were in a cinder-block building to our right. From Wordnik.com. [Four To Score]
We lived in a cinder-block apartment with little privacy and no dishwasher. From Wordnik.com. [Pay Your Own Way! (Then Thank Mom)] Reference
The cinder-block walls were chipped where bullets had pierced or grazed them. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Minutes]
Outside, he balled his hand into a fist and struck it against the cinder-block wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenth Circle]
Many use their earnings to turn their adobe shelters into humble cinder-block casitas. From Wordnik.com. [Our American Stranglehold] Reference
They had ordered up an eternal flame, with a marble-clad, cinder-block box to sit it on. From Wordnik.com. [Sculptor Wages Long Twilight Struggle to Restore His Bust of JFK] Reference
Tannim would have backed off another pace, but there was a cinder-block wall in the way. From Wordnik.com. [The Chrome Borne]
Today she rents a cinder-block home in a sprawling shantytown on the edge of this river town. From Wordnik.com. [French Benefits:] Reference
Most athletes there live in cinder-block dorm buildings first used by the Air Force in the 1950s. From Wordnik.com. [Capturing the Gold] Reference
THE HEAVY BOOTS of the day guard echo off the oppressive cinder-block walls that are all around me. From Wordnik.com. [Beach Road]
The usual result was much different: I'd run as fast as I could and leap -- into a cinder-block wall. From Wordnik.com. [LAID OFF, AND WORKING HARDER THAN EVER] Reference
There was a single basement hallway, with metal doors set into the cinder-block walls at regular intervals. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
The long cinder-block wall was interrupted by a solitary steel door that was secured by a hasp and padlock. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Revenge]
As we headed toward McCaffrey's office I saw, once again, the cinder-block buildings at the edge of the forest. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
The builder halted construction, leaving cinder-block foundations and empty lots dotting towns south of Sarasota. From Wordnik.com. [Credit crunch takes its toll on small banks] Reference
He slammed the flats of his hands against Croaker's chest, sending him reeling back against one cinder-block wall. From Wordnik.com. [Floating City]
He's waking up in a Manhattan correctional facility in a cinder-block cell much like the one you're about to see here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2009] Reference
A twenty-foot-high cinder-block wall with a crown of barbed-wire thorns and a sickly halo of floodlights bars his way. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
"Of course, of course," said Malcolm Kibunte, bowing the huge rednecks into the rear room of the cinder-block warehouse. From Wordnik.com. [Hardcase]
The low ceilings, bad fluorescent lighting, and cinder-block walls kind of made me feel as if I were back at my precinct. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Bad Wolf]
The circle of the floor was divided by a cinder-block wall, which she'd painted sky blue and dabbed with white for clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Is My Beat]
But The Store's exterior was strictly functional: tan cinder-block building, white sidewalk border, flat black parking lot. From Wordnik.com. [The Store]
Reacher walked away from the chair to the opposite corner and sat on the floor, wedged into the angle of the cinder-block walls. From Wordnik.com. [Running Blind]
He sits in the corner, Celtic-green sneakers up on his metal desk, staring at a game film projected on the white cinder-block wall. From Wordnik.com. [Beach Road]
It only took a question or two to the locals and a 10-minute moto-taxi ride along the lake to find the cinder-block home where Maxim. From Wordnik.com. [On a Guatemalan Lake, Luxury Meets Tradition] Reference
From this position, he could see the sink-commode contraption to his left and the whole of the blank cinder-block wall across from him. From Wordnik.com. [The 6th Target]
But I was grounded deep in the narrow alley bordered on both sides by high cinder-block walls, and the alley did not feel like New York. From Wordnik.com. [Ugly Americans]
Its too-bright glow cast deformed shadows on the cinder-block walls and made the already cramped space seem all the more claustrophobic. From Wordnik.com. [Time Was]
She followed signs to Hudson Air Charters and found the small cinder-block building at the end of a row of commercial airline terminals. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
One Saturday we went bowling and then ate Chinese at a cinder-block place back behind the supermarket that turned out to be pretty good. From Wordnik.com. [Black and Blue]
Rather, it's a small Appalachian operation in a painted cinder-block building in Madisonville, Tenn., whose population is less than 5,000. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie Harris: The Pork Whisperer: Allan Benton of Benton's Country Ham] Reference
Just ask Brian Kates, who manages the Meadows Park Community Center, a converted strip mall with a cinder-block gym southwest of downtown. From Wordnik.com. [Strapped City Cuts and Cuts and Cuts] Reference
Rune continued east, through the area that NYU and the real estate developers were decimating for dorms and boring cinder-block apartments. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Is My Beat]
Their mother cut hair in a low-rent beauty salon off a parking lot; their father hammered metal into bed frames in a cinder-block workshop. From Wordnik.com. [Hometown Boys:] Reference
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