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Example sentences for: mortar

How can you use “mortar” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The word has several meanings, including “a heap of stuff,” such as a heap of grapes, a heap of mortar, a heap of something, but it also means a lump of sugar.
Too much buck-passing (usually in the name of scientific rigor) between the experts on language, literature, and history has resulted in the sad fact that clear thought, the mortar that serves to create integrated human interaction, has been quite consistently assigned to the other guy's bailiwick.
(See Clint remedy the situation with a handheld mortar above.)
To extract protein, the tissue was ground with glass beads in a mortar and pestle on dry ice.
However, the lure of Amsterdam’s bricks and mortar is only part of its excitement.