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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 Chechens will gradually bleed the Russian garrison--one car bomb, one mine, one mortar at a time--until the Russians withdraw in frustration.
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.
The symbol for "pharmacy" is a mortar and pestle.
Quicklime is quick (that is, alive, as in the quick and the dead) because it is anhydrous (Greek for unwatered) and soaks up water with a vengeance to make slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2, from CaO + H2O), which is what makes quicklime so useful as the binding agent in mortar, cement, and concrete.
My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him.