Sentences Generator
And
Your saved sentences

No sentences have been saved yet

"cinder block" Definitions
  1. a light building block, made of sand, coal ashes and cement

267 Sentences With "cinder block"

How to use cinder block in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "cinder block" and check conjugation/comparative form for "cinder block". Mastering all the usages of "cinder block" from sentence examples published by news publications.

Do you see cinder block walls, fluorescent lighting and tiny windows?
I don't know, I'm a science reporter, not a cinder block expert.
Small balconies hang from the top floors of rough cinder-block houses.
The ceilings were high, the walls made of seemingly indestructible cinder block.
Canvas tents in 1948 Beirut grew up to be cinder block homes.
Someone had mounted a new flat-screen TV to the cinder block wall.
In squalid camps, whole families live crammed into one-room cinder block huts.
It grew out of closets and basements and hidden facilities in cinder-block buildings.
"I voted" selfies are traditionally set in church basements or cinder block public schools.
Cinder-block hotels, packed with oil workers in jumpsuits, routinely charge $450 a night.
McClure points his ambulance to a pink cinder-block apartment building off Jefferson Avenue.
And you don't have that cinder block tied to your ankles with a steel chain.
I stared at my cinder-block dorm wall and imagined sinking deep into the cracks.
But as a physical object, it shares a number of characteristics with a cinder block.
For one, there still are depressing, cinder-block rooms being occupied on the second floor.
Later, leaning against a cinder-block wall, hoping to disappear, I called my Aunt Pandora.
A goat is tethered to a cinder block by a rope tied to its neck.
J.A.V. rented a bright-yellow cinder-block house in a Monrovia suburb called Chocolate City.
A narrow causeway of broken cinder block, mud, and twisted metal extended from the barrier.
Pantaleón, 2700, walked over to the nearest cinder block house and called out to its owner.
Homes are slapped together with rusty shards of corrugated metal or raw cinder block and cement.
"Fifi was apparently sniffing around her residence and became stuck in a cinder block," they continued.
Most of her belongings lie in a pile outside what's left of her cinder block house.
Inside, cinder block walls are painted sea-foam green and décor runs to thrift store whimsy.
They flew from a rambling, two-story cinder-block house on the crest of a slope.
The cinder-block base stood and so did the overall structure, but several windows had shattered.
He'd tied a cinder block to her body, to weight it down, according to the court records.
Children play in soccer fields and around cinder-block houses less than half a mile from them.
It was hexagonal, with yellow cinder-block walls, a red concrete floor, and a black tile roof.
The Ur-Sachs sculpture is a cinder block that he has built out of plywood and resin.
A cinder block room contained a soiled mattress and chains — some grisly torture chamber, the couple imagined.
The small square space with cinder block stairs functions as her bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and living room.
Last summer, he showed me the huge concrete-and-cinder-block room where the presses would sit.
It is an area of cinder-block buildings and auto-parts shops well off the luau trail.
In one of the city's slums, with some 500 cinder-block homes, there's only one communal water tap.
Curtains draped across doorways of their cinder-block home hide some of their world from the street outside.
In a small cinder-block house not far from one of the toxic ponds, a man is dying.
The pastor gives his sermons in the old meat section, a large cinder-block room with L.E.D. lighting.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - The crack of a sniper round strikes terror as you crouch behind a cinder-block wall.
We eventually rounded the corner of Hansen's shop, taking us into a small, fan-cooled cinder block room.
Cables droop across smaller canals, supplying electricity to cinder-block houses that have no running water or sewers.
It's a big jail, but the two landed in adjacent wings, a single cinder block wall between them.
Every morning he awakes with his daughter, Andrea Belen, at dawn in their one-room cinder block house.
There was no yelling, no two-way mirror mounted on a grimy cinder block wall opposite a steel table.
A humble object transmogrified from one modest material into another, the plywood cinder block is finished with enormous care.
On the edge of town, in a small cinder-block house, I met an unemployed cobbler named Fayez Khatab.
Small cinder block homes are squeezed between the road and the ridge's precipitous slopes, which plunge into thick forest.
Against a backdrop of firefighters' coats hanging in cinder-block cubbies, Warren moved among a crowd of about 150.
Instead, the two young men shot up in a cinder-block boathouse at the edge of the Klamers' backyard.
He said he was surprised when YouTube watchers described one of the company's robots as "biting" a cinder block.
The house is made of cinder block and cement, with a 2-inch-thick front door insulated with horsehair.
At the end of a cul-de-sac, we scaled a low cinder-block wall and entered open space.
They are mostly high school gyms, nursing homes and church basements with cinder-block walls and horrible cellphone service.
The pattern continued even as the houses became cinder block and concrete and the settlement grew into a neighborhood.
Until recently, the cinder-block structure was home to a wholesale florist, a granite cutter and a screen printer.
Japan introduced stricter quake-resistant standards in 1981 after cinder-block walls caused deaths and injuries in a 1978 quake.
At this time, it is unclear exactly how Fifi managed to get her head trapped inside of the cinder block.
By 22015 one in every 100 adults was typically housed in an isolated cinder-block compound surrounded by barbed wire.
The car spun and hit another cinder block column, causing it to roll and burst into flames, the outlet reported.
Consider that lead bullets snap right through a cinder block with ease, while the softer metals hardly made a dent.
Trice move the pantry to the old center, in a boxy cinder-block building next to a playground and school.
O'Neill and Murphy grill market produce and herb-stuffed trout on two hand-welded oil-drum and cinder-block barbecues.
In her early Woodbridge pictures, she typically depicted children in rooms with cinder-block walls, linoleum floors and battered furniture.
A few crude human silhouettes were spray-painted on a cinder-block wall, with crooked circles drawn over their hearts.
We carted away rubble after demolition or ferried cinder block and building materials to apartments he renovated on the side.
Generally, a defendant sits in a chair, alone in front of a cinder-block wall, and stares into a camera.
There's a part of me that's secretly happy that they're living in a cinder-block dorm and eating bad food.
But finding victims weighed down with a cinder block — which typically weighs between 28 pounds and 36 pounds — is rare.
The music from rhythm games like Sound Voltex and In the Groove 3 reverberated off brightly painted cinder-block walls.
But right as we get to Guy's big finale, our concurrents drop like a cinder block pushed from a freeway overpass.
He replaced the outer cave wall with two-foot thick cinder block, and installed a drinking water aqueduct and hydroelectric plant.
In many of these neighborhoods, the best homes are simple one- or two-room cinder-block structures with corrugated metal roofs.
In a cinder-block garage in Stroudsburg, Pa., Mr. Reese discovered a trove of pamphlets printed in Kentucky in the 1820s.
An oblong hole gaped in the cinder-block wall behind him, where a rocket-propelled grenade had exploded the day before.
And now, as the gray dust of exploded cinder block drifts through Mosul, we're treated to beautiful, horrific reporting like this.
A flier for a local domestic violence shelter was taped to the cinder-block wall, one of its tabs ripped off.
A flier for a local domestic violence shelter was taped to the cinder-block wall, one of its tabs ripped off.
He stood among dozens of soldiers loading trucks outside a cinder-block building housing several auditoriums with long benches and tables.
I left them the package of cookies, walked to a small cinder-block hotel and passed out on the thin mattress.
LAS VEGAS — The neighborhoods of squat cinder-block bungalows on this city's north end do not usually produce a lot of Republicans.
" You test people the next day, and you say: "The karate champion broke the cinder block," or "The baby cried all night.
We sat at a table in a small cinder-block room, and, for three hours, she methodically narrated each disappointment at Pathways.
The lower level has another two bedrooms and a bathroom, as well as a rumpus room with a cinder-block fireplace wall.
Numbly, we move bags and boxes of clothes, linens, toiletries and school supplies into a cramped, dumpy cinder-block 1970s dorm room.
He tore down the wooden shack where he lives with his parents on the edge of Tlapacoyan and built cinder block walls.
The SWAT -team members established gunners' nests on the roofs of the houses and broke sniper holes into the cinder-block walls.
They got out of bed, rushed out the door, and found her ex-husband, Jaroslaw, battering the car with a cinder block.
They could not have been more different from the jagged cinder-block rubble and delicate, half-destroyed caravansaries of Mr. Hadad's hometown, Aleppo.
There's both pride and incredulity among the family that a girl born in a three-room cinder block house made it that far.
"We have to help one another," Nelu Bou, 60, said, surrounded by grandchildren in the narrow hall of his cluttered cinder-block home.
In December, Ms. Shica, 25, stood outside her modest cinder-block house alongside Beira's new drainage canal, cradling her 23-month-old baby.
The rewards may be modest — pride, and a dumpling-shaped ball as heavy as a cinder block — but they are cherished for generations.
The church, several hundred feet away along a footpath, was a cinder-block structure with a simple altar and a dozen wooden pews.
As we watched, frozen, one picked up a cinder block and heaved it down on the head of another man on the ground.
We gather around a table in a cramped room with white cinder-block walls; a woman from the hospital sits in the corner.
Like most Indian municipalities, Uttarkashi—a grimy cement-and-cinder-block town of eighteen thousand—has no proper means of disposing of garbage.
Prior to the urbanization, buildings in Vila Autodromo had ranged from cinder block houses to well-built homes next to the Jacarepaguá lagoon.
Which is why in early September, Mr. Jones of Science sat in a cinder block room staring at a computer screen full of data.
Brought it to our 043 x 15 cinder block practice space where the band sweat it out for hours trying to get it right.
His redeeming features were that he had a head like a cinder block, strength like an ox, and a genuine passion for the fight.
The family's cinder-block home in the tropical city of Maracay remains a refuge, even after he took to his arm with a grinder.
Inside, the visitors' room was cinder block, with high ceilings; spherical cameras bulged like popped-out cartoon eyes in the corners of the room.
Camp 4 was little more than a handful of campsites around an aging cinder block restroom, but for climbers it was historic, hallowed ground.
In a work opening with a goat tethered to a cinder block, the closest we get to Tchaikovsky's ballet is four dancers representing swans.
It had been a sturdy cinder-block structure, but the fire was so fierce it shattered the walls as if it were a missile.
Ecatepec stretches north from the tip of the capital's subway network into steep hills where square cinder-block houses are stacked like Lego pieces.
Sitting at the only table in their one-room cinder block house in the outskirts of the provincial capital, Norma started scrolling through Facebook Messenger.
These cinder block rooms were available to the critters because the inmates who occupied them before had been moved to a facility in Palm Beach.
At first, the alley looked like many others: cinder block walls, neglected asphalt, and chain link fences that back up on beige single family bungalows.
These two-story barracks are rectangles of cinder block and concrete, built around a central courtyard and enclosed by high fences topped with barbed wire.
The building, which looks like a giant cinder block painted the color of butter, contains two other schools and a rooftop field of solar panels.
Knicks 217, Hawks 221 ATLANTA — Carmelo Anthony was leaning against a cinder-block wall inside the noisy visitors' locker room in Philips Arena late Tuesday night.
Responding officers also found a gun, a pouch of weed, and a container of cocaine stashed in a cinder block hollow an arm's reach from Ricky.
Dandelion weeds grew in the unlikeliest of places, nestled in the cracks of a cinder block wall, between the spokes of a long-retired bicycle wheel.
Within the cinder-block recreation center of Most Precious Blood Church in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn, he was Logan Black, the King of Chaos.
INDOORS Mr. Breuer exercised his modernist muscles by using cinder block, glass, particleboard and plywood, and creating a strong visual connection between the inside and outside.
The front of the house has an open living, dining and kitchen area centered on a cinder block wood-burning fireplace between floor-to-ceiling windows.
Both are in a squat complex with drive-up parking, white cinder-block walls and the fake Spanish tiles that are so common in these parts.
He remembers getting baptized as a young child, so small for his age that they put a cinder block in the baptistery so he wouldn't drown.
Eat I was staying in a square cinder-block house on a dirt road outside the Lovely Bay settlement on Acklins Island in the southern Bahamas.
She stepped into a corner, sunk down against a cinder-block wall and broke down in heaving sobs as she covered her face with a towel.
Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Keiichi Ishii said he planned to raise awareness of the potential risks of cinder-block walls among private owners as well.
"Paul McCartney" is an 853-page cinder block of facts in which we learn that young Paul enjoyed condensed milk and every kind of meat except tongue.
Thanks to development, a 12-foot tall cinder-block perimeter was erected, which makes its patio look like a prison yard for college dropouts and kitchen hands.
He switched on his hazards and eased past a desolate cinder block structure, where the outlines of young men were visible in the glow of cigarette tips.
Situated on a relatively quiet corner in Greenpoint, the Springs occupies a big white cinder block box with a green neon palm tree planted in the window.
A six-foot cinder-block wall topped with clay tiles encircles the property, which has a cobblestone driveway leading to the 6,750-square-foot, two-story house.
"Right now, I don't know what I'm going to do," said Ms. Bonilla, 22, seated on a cinder block outside the state of Chihuahua's migrant affairs offices.
On a July morning, Mr. Zimmern stepped to a lectern in a cinder-block hall, shoved his hands into his jeans pockets and launched into his story.
This year the Cinder Block Comedy Festival will get started with a night of science projects created by the performers, stand-up comedy and a dance party.cinderblockcomedyfestival.
When Woodfox arrived, black and white inmates lived separately, in cinder-block compounds, and the cafeteria was divided by a wooden partition, to keep the races apart.
Residents hold regular evacuation drills, and there is a shelter in Taesung, an underground cinder block bunker stocked with food, water and gas masks in plastic bins.
Gilbert had plenty of memories in the home ... like the time he took a cinder block and smashed up his baby mama's Mercedes right in the driveway.
The barrier surges over hills like a never-ending freight train, cuts through buildings and parallels roads, changing from concrete to cinder block to metal as it goes.
The topics are eagerly discussed by the young reporters at their weekly editorial meetings under a blue plastic gazebo in the courtyard of Radio Mwana's cinder block compound.
The family of six lives in a plywood and cinder block structure, measuring 6 feet by 10 feet, with a tarp for a roof and a dirt floor.
On a sweltering morning, Haskim Hazim, 37, was working with his brother and a few friends to repair his house, mixing cement and erecting a cinder-block wall.
Most people would love to live in a place where the biggest problem is that the old trees keep dying, their roots covered in concrete and cinder block.
We stood in the cramped cinder-block visiting booth, separated from Foster by a thick sheet of Plexiglas, and took turns speaking to him through a phone handset.
The building, a cinder block warehouse that previously served as a hardware store, was tucked in a scrappy, semi-industrial neighborhood of this border city in northern Mexico.
Mr. Jeys acknowledged that the fact that his home was made largely of cinder block instead of wood or drywall may have made the structure more fire resistant.
The couple's car went off the road and struck a cinder block column, which ripped off their vehicle's rear axle and ruptured the gas tank, according to ABC News.
So it was that one afternoon, a few weeks before Christmas, we pulled up to a neglected cinder-block building on a steep hill in the town of Taytay.
Though we could only catch glimpses of him, we could see congressmen and staffers shuffling and repositioning themselves behind the concrete bathroom, the cinder block dugout, and various cars.
On Sunday, he took a swipe at the rich and corrupt elite in a Mass near the cinder block slums of Ecatepec, one of the country's most violent cities.
Drive one of his four cars — a Range Rover, a Rolls-Royce, a Lamborghini or a Porsche — to the Yankees' squat, cinder-block minor league complex about 9 a.m.
At the entrance to Airstrip Camp, down a long, unpaved road, men holding machine guns stood in the shade of a cinder-block hut, near a tattered Iraqi flag.
This is most obvious in the eponymous work, "Invisible Tattoo" (21971), a two-part sculpture made of deconstructed jeans molded around oval mirrors and placed on cinder-block pedestals.
The tarp was wrapped with gray duct tape and the man's legs were tied with an orange electrical cord, which was fastened to a cinder block, the police said.
Ramiken's first Brooklyn show, "Nobodies," goes to Andra Ursuta, whose six remarkable glass sculptures, resting on cinder-block plinths, create an arresting tableau of sex, stress and self-portraiture.
The death of 9-year-old Rina Miyake just outside her school in Takatsuki city has sparked concerns about cinder-block walls and prompted authorities to call for safety checks.
Another photo shows the cinder block broken in several pieces, while the third features Fifi looking up at the camera after being freed, appearing slightly shaken up from getting stuck.
Some of them drove out to Family Dollar, the main store on the road down into Fort Yates, to find people in the parking lot outside the cinder block building.
PARIAGUAN, Venezuela (Reuters) - Eliannys Vivas, 9, started to get a sore throat on a Friday last month in this languid Venezuelan town where papaya trees shade poor cinder-block homes.
Almost all the shootings happened in southwest Phoenix, in predominantly Latino, working-class neighborhoods of low-slung cinder block houses, where many immigrant families find their foothold in the city.
The only slice of white on the black side was a subdivision called Monroe Heights, which was bordered, or protected, by a high cinder block wall built in the 1940s.
A couple of days after being taken to Palanebiolo, a group of West African men who had been rescued by the Dignity I sat on a cinder-block ledge outside.
He found walls of fire in the valley, choked air and raging heat, charred oak and ash and a few cinder block walls where the fire had devoured our home.
It's a warehouse, this place: cement floors, fluorescent tube lights in the ceiling, flyers taped to the painted cinder-block walls—ads for phone services, for immigration attorneys, for psychologists.
At the first house, a two-room cinder-block structure with a broken piece of mirror on one wall, a woman talked with me as we sat on the floor.
A half-dozen pit bull mixes chased one another across an asphalt run behind the shelter, a cinder-block bunker on East 110th Street in Harlem, dancing and wrestling in midair.
His decisions have the grace of a cinder block, and he depends on the increasingly predictable diet of pull-up bricks and hopeless summit clashes against Rudy Gobert that go nowhere.
The town was an unkempt place of cinder-block warehouses and unfinished houses with glassless windows, but even minor Mafia families there were thought to have millions of euros stashed away.
A grid of cinder block columns, with exposed rebar protruding through the top and surrounded by scaffolding, it was hard to tell if construction had just begun or was already complete.
The streets were crushed into rubble, empty lots were overgrown and abandoned, most of the houses were made of cinder block, without so much as a coat of paint or plaster.
Japanese schools have largely upgraded the safety of classrooms and other buildings to meet the current anti-quake standards, but many of those old cinder-block walls have been largely left untouched.
Earlier this week, a veterinarian uploaded a hilarious, and very relatable, video showing a large gray cat, nicknamed Cinder-block, using the absolute least amount of effort while being made to exercise.
It's an almost impossible juggling act, I realize, and it's a small wonder that any airport gets built that isn't just a cinder-block hovel with benches and rendition-style interrogation rooms.
Notebook On a Wednesday morning in July, the weight lifter Apolonia Vaivai leaned against the cinder-block wall of a crowded bus stall in the South Pacific port city of Suva, Fiji.
But it was still fun to scramble over the ruins sinking back in the date palms, with no sounds but the distant pounding of a resident building a new cinder block home.
Teams across the Venezuelan countryside built irrigation ditches to drain pools of standing water, distributed quinine and constructed cinder block homes in rural areas so that mosquitoes had fewer places to breed.
A man whose body was found tied to a cinder block and floating near a dock over the weekend in Brooklyn was the son of a Mafia associate, the police said Tuesday.
The ConBody studio, sheathed in chain link fencing and faux cinder block wallpaper, is across the aisle from the Martone Cycling Company, which sells brightly colored two-speed bicycles that cost $1,200.
That was the year the animator-puppeteer Bob Baker and his partner, Alton Wood, bought a disused, cinder-block scenic shop on the edge of downtown Los Angeles and set up shop.
The Putnam County Sheriff's Office found no sign of forced entry in the family's double-wide trailer, but said the back door may have been unlocked and propped open with a cinder block.
"The busy days I had just became nightmarish," he said, as World Wresting Entertainment staffers darted in and out of the drab cinder block room, furnished with a few folding tables and chairs.
My grandfather designed a house that reflected the modernist sensibilities of his time: glass-and-cinder-block exterior, stained-wood walls, and a fireplace mosaic depicting the developmental life cycle of the honeybee.
"I was afraid I was going to make a mistake," the boy said in Spanish from his uncle's living room, in a modest cinder-block house on the south side of this city.
Rutt erected the 52-cinder block structure near Jacumba Hot Springs, California, a mere 20 yards away from an official, looming border fence, to contemplate the economic effects of restricting immigration from Mexico.
"I wasn't getting enough racism, sexism and ageism in the real world so I came to Hollywood," Ms. Wang said, and laughed so hard that the bar's cinder block walls seemed to shake.
And while airstrikes and combat have left piles of rubble in other towns and cities, this one is growing, with cinder-block factories doing swift business and new neighborhoods rising from the sand.
"Free gyms don't exist anymore," Mr. Russo said one afternoon, standing in a cinder block basement in Flatbush that housed the program's last remaining Brooklyn outpost before a flood wiped the property out.
Imagine a single cinder-block room, crowded with aisles of VHS cassettes organized by genre, and a curtained-off closet in the back with the tantalizing adult videos hidden on the other side.
Trees were pulled up by the roots, roofs torn off buildings, and the cinder block foundation was all that was left of a mobile home in the town, which is southeast of Waco.
In 2015, she began working with Kevan Hoertdoerfer, a Charleston architect with a history of designing provocative contemporary structures, to transform a cinder-block house across from Hampton Park into a modernist gem.
He owns Rodney's Crabs, a takeout restaurant on the highway, a few dozen yards from where the gray cinder block remnants of the old Monroe Heights decline in the shadows of sea grape trees.
The U.S. Census Bureau, however, says 1,600 people live here, many of them in one-story cinder-block homes, not the big beach houses on stilts, known euphemistically as cottages, a few miles away.
Then my grandfather built the house again: a modest ranch with large square windows, redwood siding and cinder block surrounded by low walls he stacked stone by stone, on 10 acres of raw land.
So I made a pilgrimage up Flat Rock Road to the white cinder block building that served as the exterior of the Boar's Nest, where Daisy Duke slung beers in her namesake micro-shorts.
When we reached the town, we found that most of the fires were concentrated in a residential neighborhood of well-appointed houses set back from the street behind metal gates and cinder-block walls.
A cinder-block bungalow of about a thousand square feet, Ms. Gabe's house was completed in the 1980s, at a cost of $15,000, after more than 10 years of work and decades of planning.
The NBA's small-ball revolution (which includes its embrace of the three-point line and a faster tempo) closed the door on cinder-block-footed bigs like Asik from being able to contribute meaningful minutes.
His office, an austere space with white cinder block walls, cluttered with books and stacks of papers, had little in the way of mementos to show that he's been to Antarctica more than 282 times.
The site of ruined cinder-block homes, on a hill overlooking olive orchards, appeared deserted at first, but then a crowd of children, chanting and waving posters of Mr. Assad, emerged to greet the buses.
The small town of Gwadar, for example, was a forgotten end of the earth, filled with dust-colored cinder-block houses that lined trash-strewn streets and ringed by cliffs, desert and the Arabian Sea.
A Fighter Finds Comfort in Someone Who Understands On the tough south side of Youngstown, in the squat cinder-block refuge called Jack Loew's South Side Boxing Club, the boxing life continues for Anthony Taylor.
Mr. Polk built the burnished maple bench that runs along a cinder-block wall himself, and the ceramist Erin Louise Clancy will set up a work space in the back that will supply the shop.
The FBI videotapes show Little, sitting in front of a cinder block wall in blue jail scrubs and a gray knit cap, sometimes appearing bemused or smiling as he recalls the circumstances surrounding the murders.
"Some are raised in pens," Mr. Cong said, wearing blue overalls and white rubber boots, and standing outside a long cinder-block building that contained 8003 pools filled with sea cucumbers, redolent of the sea.
A possible answer If a cinder block wall is too difficult and a pour-over wall too weak, the construction experts said a wall fashioned out of pre-casted concrete panels would be the workable choice.
A cinder-block police station is supposed to be visited once a week by a police officer who flies in on a single-engine plane from Darwin, the closest city, 50 miles south across the sea.
An entire section of a cinder block wall had been pounded out — or cut out, to put it precisely, with neat edges along the top and sides, as if someone had been making a new door.
Taylor obtained permits to block visibility to her Beverly Hills mansion ... including putting up a 6.5 ft tall cinder block wall by her front porch and a 7 ft high retaining wall by her tennis court.
If it's a kidnapping, it's an odd one, as Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) awakens from a car accident to discover that she's tethered to an IV in her arm and a cinder-block wall at her leg.
We find ourselves in the cinder-block-walled refectory of a faith-based rehab center for the penurious, ruled over by the clipboard-wielding Rosemary, who wears a lifetime of hard use with stoicism but without camouflage.
The realistic set by Stephanie Nelson, who also designed the costumes and lighting, reproduces the dining hall of this nondescript facility: cinder block walls, acoustical tile and florescent lights in the water-stained ceiling, folding tables and chairs.
It was the usual up-and-down Lineker flurries with no thought for head movement or defense which saw McDonald out, but not before McDonald turned Lineker's cinder block head around with a few strikes of his own.
At the end of the shoot, she created an online gallery so that the families of the incarcerated would be able to see that their lives were not confined to a bunk bed in a cinder block room.
The pool, adjacent to the bar, is enclosed by cinder block walls painted in gradients of purple to intensify the color of its water; the gradients of orange on the wall's exterior capture the sunrise and the sunset.
To reach it, you descend a flight of stairs and pass through a cinder block corridor into a windowless space that is home to the unofficial Smith College Historic Clothing Collection: 23,22011 dresses, suits, shoes, bags and accessories.
The Harvard Graduate Center was at best a mixed success: inside its rooms, with their cinder-block walls and drop ceilings, even a modernist might pine for the red brick and ersatz Georgian of Harvard's traditional campus buildings.
Image 2 of 2 TOKYO – Japan&aposs government ordered an emergency inspection of cinder-block walls at schools nationwide on Tuesday, a day after an earthquake in Osaka killed four people, two of whom were crushed by falling walls.
On Saturday, St. Johns County Fire Rescue in St. Augustine, Florida shared on Facebook that a local rottweiler puppy named Fifi accidentally got her head stuck inside of a cinder block while she was sniffing around her home's yard.
The couple's car went off the road and struck a cinder block column at the entrance of their gated community in Riverside, California, which ripped off their vehicle's rear axle and ruptured the gas tank, according to ABC News.
The brothers wrapped Mr. Carini in blue tarp — it appeared to be the one he kept for his pop-up flower stand — and weighed it down with the cinder block and construction materials, the Brooklyn district attorney's office said.
Mario Lozano, a 47-year-old vendor from one of the poor neighborhoods that are part of a sprawl of cinder block homes surrounding Mexico City, said he felt like he was entering the palace of French kings after the revolution.
I heard a break in the gunfire and decided to take a chance, ran from home plate to the first base dugout which is also cinder block and two about two or three feet so you can have better cover.
As a fellow of the American Academy in Rome in 1999, he neglected the classical ruins and explored shuttered factories and unfinished apartment complexes; his compositional style can make a cinder-block squat seem as monumental as a marble mausoleum.
The ward was rectangular, with steel doors, cinder-block walls, a nursing station and medication dispensary, an isolation room for stressed or threatening patients, and, behind the scenes, offices, supply cabinets, closets, restrooms, and, presumably, a communal area for the staff.
These sculptures, resting on cinder block pedestals, fill the museum's third floor ("It's almost a forest of NUDS that you encounter," says Norton.) At first, Lucas filled tights with fluff and twisted them into tight forms that resemble humans embracing.
It might as well be a different universe from the town where he learned the game, where poorly constructed cinder-block houses are tightly packed one against the other, and the idea of a luxury store would be considered fantasy.
On the flat roof of a cinder-block farmhouse converted into a military base west of town, Kurdish militiamen pointed across a shallow valley at Turkish military positions and acknowledged that the Turks could storm the area quickly if they wanted.
The Hypocrites' artistic director, Sean Graney, whose high-pitched cackle frequently bounced off the converted factory's brick and cinder block walls as his cast rehearsed words and chords, founded the company with the mission of making the old new again.
Drawn by the feasts of horse oats and refuse, rats often pass unimpeded from the barns through holes visible in the sides of the cinder-block dorms and small clapboard shacks where the workers live, according to workers who reside there.
A family was already in the guesthouse so I was taken to the home of Maria Goldean, who lives in a quaint vine-covered cottage with her husband and has a more modern cinder block home on the property for travelers.
The masses don't necessarily flock to this windowless cinder block in the middle of downtown Milwaukee, but some of them do come back—for Linda or Giannis or reasons of their own—and the crowd that does is unique in the NBA landscape.
When she recovers, she finds herself chained to a makeshift bed in an underground cinder-block bunker constructed by Howard (John Goodman), a bearded, hard-core, pistol-packing survivalist, who claims to have rescued her from the car crash and saved her life.
Now fear of another failure sits heavily on his loved-ones in western Guatemala, where his mother Eulalia Colomo frets his deportation could ruin the family of 12 children she said she had raised in a mountain village of cinder block homes.
J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times BELTSVILLE, Md. — About an hour outside Washington, tucked in a cinder-block building run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, orderly piles of charred and twisted matter are spread across a secure laboratory.
At the time, Mr. Parrish was a resident D.J. at Better Days, a tiny, no-frills sweatbox with cinder-block walls and minimal lighting in Detroit where D.J.s could intimately connect with a predominantly African-American community of dancers and fellow musicians.
In particular, reading for hours about life in a tiny raft sailing in the middle of the ocean from atop the bottom bunk in a colorless, cinder-block room primed me for the sort of quasi-hallucinatory episode rarely experienced in sobriety.
They are crowded in a series of cinder block buildings in the intelligence offices of the 2015,000-person camp, which is funded in part by the UN. A group of women and the children of alleged ISIS members from Indonesia reside in a tent nearby.
The shower mold seems more ominous with every episode of House you watch, roommates can be loud, and if you actually sit down and do the math, you often realize your cinder block cell is more expensive than a nice apartment in your hometown.
Designed by Georg Muche, then the "form master," or artistic director, of the Bauhaus weaving workshop, the house, with its flat roof and white facade, reflected the latest technical standards and industrial materials: cinder block walls, notoriously faulty Torfoleum insulation and opaque glass skirting boards.
The Native Hotel is not on the beach itself, and the cinder block bungalows seemed a bit brutally modernist, but inside I liked the feeling of having my own cabin with its crisp white linens, minibar in the vintage ice chests and kimono-style robes.
On a hill overlooking the town of Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan, a half-built, two-story mansion with an ostentatious double portico and 12 rooms stands in sharp contrast to the corrugated metal shacks and simple cinder block homes that characterize more conventional local architecture.
Created by four artists from the Atis Rezistans collective in the city's Grand Rue neighborhood of cinder-block houses and car workshops — Jean Hérard Céleur, André Eugène, Guyodo (Frantz Jacques), and Evel Romain — these works extend the entwined traditions of assemblage and African sculpture.
On a Friday morning in March, I walked from Wevr's office on Rose Avenue, a modern cinder-block structure, to its office on Indiana Avenue, a stark trapezoid of corrugated steel set off from the street by two huge succulents and a white picket fence.
If it wasn't one of the best MMA fights period, it was at least one of the most visceral: a heart-and-balls brawl as subtle as getting a cinder block dropped on your head, and a fight that reestablished how close entertainment and brutality often are.
In America there are tens of millions of basements like this, with the same short-pile wall-to-wall carpeting, cinder-block walls, high windows in window wells, exposed ducts and pipes overhead, water heater in the corner, and pervasive sense of away-from-the-family refuge.
Venezuela has a long Caribbean coastline, and the closeness of that warm sea permeates the capital, with its eternal summer weather, where hammocks can be found with more or less equal regularity in cinder-block homes, middle-class apartments and the big houses of the rich.
The store will be stocked with gold and silver jewelry, sculptural ceramic candlesticks painted with experimental oxidized blue-green glazes, abstractly silk-screened sweatshirts and, of course, lighting fixtures — including Heavy Light, a lamp made of a cinder block topped with a colorful modern-art-inspired bulb.
My colleagues covering crime and prisons are constantly in New Jersey, breaking news and exposing wrongdoings across the state: Joseph Goldstein, who covers policing, recently chronicled the lives of a father- and mother-to-be, separated by a cinder block wall in a New Jersey prison.
The F.B.I. said in a court affidavit that he had used stronger language in a conversation with one of the bureau's undercover informants, saying that if he were ever betrayed by one, "that person's head would be in a cinder block" at the bottom of a lake.
Although the graphics aren't technically much more advanced than the Mario Kart arcade games, it's hard to convey just how immersive it feels in VR. Never mind that the Thwomp cinder block looming above your head has a goofy face — you definitely won't want it to squish you.
A kind of ode to the gelatin silver print — with luscious grays that differentiate the textures of cinder block, rubber, metal, plywood and sweaty skin — it has a sense of gravity befitting the title and finds Mr. Wall still quite attached to, or at least grounded by, photography.
The next day, we began our beer crawl with a hearty lunch at Martha Lou's Kitchen, which has fed Charlestonians and tourists alike for over 30 years from its pink cinder-block building on Morrison Drive, well north of the city center but toward the south end of our focus.
Mr. Caro was working from a cinder block basement storeroom in Riverdale when he read in New York magazine about a program at the library that gave authors with book contracts their own carrel and let them keep their borrowed books there overnight instead of having to return them every day.
Since then, Ms. Lou has beaded structures including a full-scale model of a flower-filled suburban backyard, a 1949 Spartan Mobile Mansion trailer, a chain-link enclosure topped with barbed wire, a life-size reproduction of a cinder block prison cell and two versions of a mile-long coiled rope.
And every afternoon, except on days when he can't afford the gas, Taylor drives his knocking Dodge Caravan, with its car seat and little girl toys, the 20 miles to Youngstown — to Jack Loew's South Side Boxing Club, his cinder-block sanctuary, where boxing gloves hang from nails like holiday ornaments.
Two mornings later, Kelen stood outside a cinder-block schoolhouse on Aur that the chief had offered as a dormitory, looking up at an overcast sky and weighing again — as he had when he first met Genz — how much of his knowledge to share in order to keep it alive.
Story has never been a difficult man to hit—standing almost square and barely moving his head at all—but having a head like a cinder block allows Story to trade comfortably, except where his opponent is swinging at Story's head, Story is making the investment in the body work.
The latest findings only add to the catharsis for people like Jerry Cooper, who was at the school from 1960-61 and is president of the White House Boys, whose name is a nod to the small cinder-block building where they say they were viciously flogged for the slightest infraction.
Her exhibition "Generation Wealth," on view at the International Center of Photography on the Bowery, is a bitter, reproving tour of her 25 years exploring American and global materialism, and it's accompanied by a glistening cinder block of a publication, filled with over 500 pages of diamonds, collagen and Birkin bags.
Mr. Rawls said that the notion of a void, or what Ms. Rankine has called "the already dead space," is integral to the work, invoked through dancing, speaking, singing and the stark performance space itself, a cinder block storage room in the vast Fisher Center, which was designed by Frank Gehry.
" "[My phone] vibrated to let me know there was something nearby and I looked up and just fell in a hole," she told the AP. Many other players have shared their own mishaps on social media, describing accidents ranging from small stumbles to stinging sunburn to the classic "tripping over a cinder block.
On a recent sun-streaked morning, Mr. Irwin tipped back a hard hat and surveyed cinder-block walls rising from the arid West Texas scrubland here, the beginnings of what will be the first permanent installation of its kind designed by him in America, on the grounds of the Chinati Foundation in Marfa.
In her tidy two-room cinder-block home, Mumo explained to me that when she wakes up in the morning, she offers a prayer of thanksgiving that God has allowed her husband, a livery-car conductor, to make enough money to pay for the cooking gas she needs to make the morning tea.
His first road picture was geotagged "Chicago Downtown" but could have been anywhere: the battered steel door between the faux fluted pilasters of a down-at-heel industrial building, its cinderblock facade unevenly repaired; above the door, someone had stenciled a simple, charming scene of white snowcapped mountains and a floating white moon.
"You are charged with a number of felonies, including murder and malicious wounding," Judge Robert Downer told the man, James Alex Fields Jr., who was not in the courtroom but was seen on a small video screen sitting with his shoulders slumped in front of a dark cinder block wall and a filing cabinet.
The punk satire website Hard Times, known for headlines like "Nobody Sure if Post Rock Band Has Started Playing Yet" and "I Think America Would Be Safer if Every Adult Owned a Cinder Block on a Chain You Swing Around All Crazy," hosts this stand-up comedy showcase featuring writers for the Hard Times and others.tendertrapbk.
Now, as the federal government prepares to spend an unprecedented $20 billion to repair neighborhoods across Puerto Rico that were ravaged by the Category 4 storm, the goal of finally replacing Vietnam's besieged warren of cinder block houses with a flourishing community capable of weathering the hurricanes of the future seems at once more urgent and less likely than ever.
There is a discernible buzz in the Honolulu art world today, but it's coming from a spate of hip, dual-purpose exhibition spaces — restaurants, cafes, or luxury high-rise apartment building foyers — where artists hang their own work (sans curatorial discernment), and from the cinder block walls of some of the old warehouses and Quonset huts in Kaka'ako now decorated with murals and real estate developer-funded graffiti.
Rocketbook notebooks Texas Instruments TI-84 graphing calculator 2019-2020 academic planner One-inch binder, pack of four Brita water filter bottle Windproof travel umbrella Zebra Z-Grip ballpoint pens Laptop backpack with USB charging port Insulated lunch bag Locker shelf Magnetic dry erase/cork weekly calendar board There's nothing like preparing to move into a 12-foot by 12-foot cinder block room to get you excited about going back to school.
For brokers like Mr. Milne, marketing these houses offers unique challenges, including the need to become a Wright expert, to devise a strategy for separating potential buyers from sightseers, and to develop a convincing argument for why someone should pay a premium to live in a house with small bedrooms and a snug kitchen, cinder-block walls, cement floors, narrow doorways, a carport instead of a garage and, quite likely, no air-conditioning.
Several months ago, she opened her latest permanent site-specific work, "Planar Pavilions," a loose grid of 219 configurations of black-painted cinder-block walls of varying heights — some low enough to sit on, others as tall and imposing as linebackers — along a gentle slope, which calls to mind the crumbled foundations of a future civilization as well as the constellation of concrete boxes Donald Judd installed in the early 21868s on his own property in Marfa, Tex.
Then there are other things about me that constricted by ability to cry: That I'm much more of a thinker than a feeler; that I'm quick to verbalize my feelings rather to sit with them; that I'm an anxious person who is often in a state hypervigilance in which I'm less likely to relax enough to cry; that I'm a journalist and thus part of a professional culture that places a high value on composure and stoicism; and that, like, a lot of guys, after years of painful personal and professional experiences, I had built a cinder block wall between me and my emotions that I've only recently started to disassemble.

No results under this filter, show 267 sentences.

Copyright © 2024 RandomSentenceGen.com All rights reserved.