How to Use brickyard in a Sentence
brickyard
noun
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At the brickyard outside Dhubri, most of the loaders carting raw bricks to the kilns were women.
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Paul Salopek,
National Geographic,
11 Sep. 2019
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The oldest home on the tour is the Dailey House, built circa 1890 out of bricks from the Escondido brickyard.
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Linda McIntosh,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
9 May 2017
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These two events would eventually force Ruben to drop out of school at 15 to support his mother and siblings by taking a job at the Pueblo brickyard.
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Alex Burness,
The Denver Post,
28 Nov. 2019
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But soon after his brickyard triumph, Petillo was having frequent scrapes with the law.
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Will Higgins,
Indianapolis Star,
22 May 2018
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Soon Luigi was working at a brickyard and then later in a power plant for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Dec. 2020
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After the last area brickyard closed in 1941, marinas generally replaced them.
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New York Times,
18 Mar. 2020
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And contract laborer Shazima Kathum, 24, shares the same fate as roughly 12 million other workers toiling in such dusty brickyards.
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Paul Salopek,
National Geographic,
11 Sep. 2019
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In the northern portion, William operated a prosperous brickyard.
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Susan Hodara,
New York Times,
3 May 2017
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By the early 20th century, as part of the Great Migration, Black Southerners were also being recruited by brickyard owners, who would pay for their travel expenses.
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New York Times,
21 May 2021
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The couple eventually settled in Pennsylvania, working in the brickyards.
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Joy Johnston,
ajc,
11 May 2018
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