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  • noun Alternative spelling of breeze-block.

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Examples

  • He was also lucky enough to find a brilliant architect, Bill Howell, who, for the astonishingly modest sum of £60,000, designed a breezeblock building that combined elements of Greek and Elizabethan stages and the circus.

    Young Vic at 40: the Young and the restless Michael Billington 2010

  • Last month he scolded Wearsiders for failing to fill the Stadium of Light, thereby inviting retorts about unimaginative concourse catering, an overcrowded shop and acres of bare breezeblock walls badly in need of decoration.

    Clubs should serve the fans, not pander to fantasies of democracy | Louise Taylor 2011

  • To think you used to be impressed by this clunky breezeblock.

    Charlie Brooker: Your brain may control your computer, but who's your controlling your brain? 2011

  • Aside from the breezeblock subtle tactics of the last five minutes, I really enjoyed the finale.

    MIND MELD: If We Ran Battlestar Galactica 2009

  • Three weeks after the two Brazilians left Sardoá, on Tuesday 24 August, Mexican troops discovered the corpses of 58 men and 14 women, bound, blindfolded and lying in the grass along the edges of a breezeblock barn in Tamaulipas state.

    Deadly lure of the US leaves trail of tears across two continents Tom Phillips in Sardoá 2010

  • Would you earnestly listen to the music of Paolo Nutini if it meant that Sir Donald Sinden would break into your house at night and smash your kneecaps with a breezeblock?

    Race War! Race War! Spike Lee Vs Clint Eastwood. It’s On! 2009

  • Perhaps even prettier than a breezeblock other people will be receiving around now.

    grahamsleight: Self-promotion comma shameless comma repeated grahamsleight 2009

  • For a street circuit with temporary facilities, the standard was higher than at some permanent tracks in Europe, the extensive garages putting the breezeblock hovels masquerading as pits at Silverstone to shame.

    Chequered Conflict Maurice Hamilton 2008

  • So when the con actually started on Thursday at midday I already felt like it was Saturday at an Eastercon, sitting there with me bottle of Irn Bru in Gary Gibson's reading in the Fyne room (which seemed awfully appropriate to the soldiers-in-evil-experimental-lab section Gary read, what with its Guantanomo-effect breezeblock walls and cell-like atmosphere).

    Whirled Con Hal Duncan 2005

  • It was JJ Abrams who directed Mission: Impossible III even though he knew that all women hated Tom Cruise and people would rather bludgeon themselves with a breezeblock than watch two hours of him twatting around.

    Winona Ryder: Spock’s Mum 2007

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