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• I've had the cracks in the wall stopped with mortar by the builders.From the entry stop
• There's not nearly enough mortar for thirty-two square metres of wall.From the entry square metre
• A rain of mortar fire fell on our trenches.From the entry rain
• Brick and mortar retail stores face online competition.From the entry brick and mortar
• A gun or mortar carries well.From the entry carry
• Lime-cement mortar is also known as composition or "compo" mortar, guarded or gauged mortar. The mix contains, lime, cement and sand in proportions depending on the requirements of the work.From the entry compo
• Next she fetched the large stone mortar where it hunkered down all lurksome in Darkhouse.2014, Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things. From the entry lurksome
• The lowest-impact wall is the dry-laid stone wall, which is fitted together without mortar.2009, Owen E. Dell, “Chapter 14: Sustainable Hardscape Construction”, in Sustainable Landscaping for Dummies, page 221. From the entry dry-laid
• You will be firing down on them, and you can use everything you have, even mortars.2008, Samuel John Hazo, This Part of the World: A Novel, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry cut to pieces
• The masons laid the brick walls unevenly, leaving unpointed mortar between bricks for a rough-cast texture.2007, Russell Versaci, Creating a New Old House: Yesterday's Character for Today's Home. From the entry unpointed
• Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger!"1988, Peter Pinney, The Barbarians: A Soldier's New Guinea Diary, University of Queensland Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 109. From the entry dinger
• I lifted one of the skins from the mortar and held it close to the candle.1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 153. From the entry hyla
• A poorly formulated mortar mixture will result in plaster that blisters and cracks.1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry blister
• On the north bank were the Japanese, entrenched with pillboxes, machine guns, field guns and mortars.1945, Mark Tennien, Chungking Listening Post, New York: Creative Age Press, Inc., page 63. From the entry Toishan
• Some men in the cellar were mixing mortar in trays with hoes.1942, Elizabeth Vernon Hubbard, Your Children at School, How They Adjust and Develop. From the entry squush
• Generally the mortar line was “grapevined” (scored) and “penciled” (the score painted with a fine white line), which separated each brick.2021, Clay Lancaster, Antebellum Architecture of Kentucky. From the entry grapevine
• Every family had a wooden mortar and stone pestle and the men worked long hours in preparing this.2014, Gladys Tantaquidgeon, “An Affectionate Portrait of Frank Speck”, in Siobhan Senier, editor, Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of…. From the entry yokeag
• Like other Flagg houses, the walls were created of stone (in this case Tennessee quartzite) and mortar using a slipform process.2010, Thomas H. Fehring, Whitefish Bay, →ISBN. From the entry slipform
• Abigail taught her the use of the samp mortar.2004, Louise Cabral, A Pageant of Shadows, page 327. From the entry samp
• The Russians fought back with Grad rocket-launcher salvos and mortar attacks (they also made some use of armor).2001, Olga Oliker, Russia’s Chechen Wars 1994-2000: Lessons from Urban Combat, Santa Monica, California: Rand, page 29. From the entry grad
• A truck caught fire from mortar charge.2000, Sunil Gangopadhyaya, East-West (part 2, page 326). From the entry underwears
• Powdered tobacco should be introduced into rat holes, which can then be firmly closed up with bricks and mortar.1918, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, volume 12, page 412. From the entry tobacco
• 'Twas not by barking mortars that the pushful CAESAR scored; He trusted close formations and the silent stabbing sword.1917, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Sept. 12, 1917. From the entry pushful
• Serhiy Perebyinis lost his wife, Tetiana, and both of their children to Russian mortar shelling as they tried to flee Irpin, near Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.2022 March 9, Andrew E. Kramer, “A family’s dash toward safety in Ukraine ends tragically”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry Tetiana
• Other areas have mortar joints missing, including between the voussoir blocks forming the edge of the arches on either side of the pier.2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in RAIL, page 26. From the entry voussoir
• As a result of unfavourable market conditions for bricks and mortar restaurants, dark kitchens, also known as ghost restaurants, are becoming more common.2018 June 5, Sarah Finch, “The rise of the dark kitchen”, in Disruption Hub, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2020. From the entry dark kitchen
• All specimens were immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen, powderized using a mortar and pestle, and stored at -80°C until time for protein or RNA isolation.2016 January 28, “Skeletal Characterization of Smurf2-Deficient Mice and In Vitro Analysis of Smurf2-Deficient Chondrocytes”, in PLOS ONE…. From the entry powderize
• More than 70 non-state armed groups were recorded as using the weapons, including 12 that fired rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israel.2013 April 12, Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian. From the entry nonstate
• Either a special steel mortar or a special steel jar mill may be used as alternative means of preparing a crushed sample of glass.2004, American Society for Testing & Materials, Glass - Ceramic Whitewares, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry jar mill
• Parging is a single layer of mortar applied directly to the wall with a trowel so that it covers the entire surface.1991 July–August, Paul Briggs, “Mortars & finishes”, in The Old-House Journal, volume XIX, number 4, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: Old House…. From the entry parge
• Laden with mortars, ammo, and a Browning .50-caliber heavy machine gun, the heavy weaponsmen lumbered after the two to the position Gunnar had chosen.1990, John Lansing, Nguy-Hiem War Zone, page 57. From the entry weaponsman
• Kudzu is available in natural food stores and Oriental markets; it is often sold in lumps that must be crushed in a mortar before measuring.1989 November, Drew DeSilver, Jan Gahala, “What is that stuff?”, in Vegetarian Times, →ISSN, page 43. From the entry kudzu
• In most cases, there should be a sufficiently thick layer of mortar ahead of the screed to insure that all low spots will be filled.1973, T. W. Love, “Finishing Concrete”, in Construction Manual: Concrete & Formwork, Carlsbag, Calif.: Craftsman Book Company, published…. From the entry screed
• The new villages are built of mortar and brick, some of stone, and are a far cry from the villages of mudhouses.1963, Allen J. Ellender, “United States Foreign Operations in Africa”, in Reports and Documents, volume 19, United States: Congress, page…. From the entry mudhouse
• There was no end to the surprises of this search: things brayed to pieces as if with a pestle and mortar, things easily smashable untouched.1910, H. de Vere Stacpoole, The Pools of Silence. From the entry smashable
• It was not knocked over, our khits informed us, but it was full of plaster and mortar, and sundry pieces of brick.1905, Journal of the United Service Institution of India, volume 34, page 435. From the entry khit
• Using a coffee grinder or mortar and pestle, pulse or grind to the desired consistency, being careful not to overgrind the mixture into a paste or seed butter.2016, Holly Bellebuono, The Healing Kitchen, page 17. From the entry overgrind
• Here we would find, perhaps, three 18-pounder guns dug in as antitank defences supplemented by 60 lb "toffee apple" trench mortar bombs buried as makeshift anti-tank mines.2014, Richard Baber, The SOTCW World War I Compendium. From the entry toffee apple
• Halimur Khan has astutely pointed out the passage’s folkloric subtext: Stalin “flies” down to confront Chonkin, and his pipe and rifle are analogues of Baba Iaga’s mortar and pestle.2009, Karen L. Ryan, “[Joseph] Stalin in a Dress”, in Stalin in Russian Satire, 1917–1991, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press…. From the entry Baba Iaga

Meaning of mortar

1. noun A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
2. noun A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
3. noun A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.

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How do you use mortar in a sentence?

Mortar is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.”

What is a short sentence with mortar?

“A gun or mortar carries well.”

What does mortar mean?

Mortar means a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.