Definition of breeze block in US English:
breeze block
nounˈbrēz ˌbläkˈbriz ˌblɑk
British A lightweight building brick made from small cinders mixed with sand and cement; a cinder block.
as modifier breeze-block huts and cabins
Example sentencesExamples
- The notion that architectural heritage may include a motel built of breeze block seems a little far fetched.
- There are piles of rubbish - old tyres, breeze blocks, oil drums, and skips full of trash.
- Would the newspaper's well-heeled editor call a breeze block room ‘home’?
- Everyone is crammed into a tiny dressing room with beige breeze-block walls and dirty blue linoleum.
- It's as big as a breeze block, but the tome is the most ambitious attempt to corral the film industry into some semblance of order.
- The blood-spattered breeze-block wall stands as grisly testimony of the violence.
- Concrete slabs were hoisted into position, and the gaps fleshed out with crudely plastered breeze blocks.
- The back wall of the cell was painted magnolia over breeze blocks.
- The only twenty-first-century structure I see is the breeze-block shed where dried cocoa beans are bagged.
- I have spent the past three weeks filming breeze-block houses that defy gravity.
- On arrival at the location we were met with the stark sight of solitary raw breeze blocks.
- They found the wood and breeze block building well alight with flames shooting up above the trees.
- The mountains are Scottish, the weather Mediterranean, and the architecture a mixture of grand colonial and breeze block.
- Now it is a frontier town, a burgeoning collection of tents and hastily built breeze-block cantonments.
- The first mobile phones were as bulky portable and attractive as a breeze block.
- It's low-rise breeze block with limestone cladding.
- Breeze-block walls are broken up with windows, and the roof is a semicircle of corrugated aluminium.
- The circus performer prepares to smash a breeze block on Nigel's chest.
- Thus we meet Rocky, so named because he keeps a breeze block on his kitchen table.
- General features of housing are wood or breeze-block walls, corrugated iron roofs, and uncovered wooden or cement floors.