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How to pronounce breeze block in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cinder block, clinker block
Type of building block


cinder blocks are called breeze blocks in Britain.

Examples of breeze block

breeze block
This is little Meg Burgess who died when a breeze block garden wall fell on her.
From the e-edition.metro.co.uk
This weekend's event is likely to have been the largest breeze-block domino run ever done.
From the independent.co.uk
To one side of him was a disjointed row of breeze-block shacks, to the other, a dirt track.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The steep narrow alleys and breeze-block homes of the favelas of Rio are as crowded as ever.
From the guardian.co.uk
There is a fair scattering of Fifties breeze block and not a lot of traditional whitewashed walls.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Breeze-block homes back directly onto the refinery's tank farm.
From the economist.com
It can be constructed of brick, breeze block, wood, glass or PVC.
From the en.wikipedia.org
There were once 15 of the camps, which are not tent cities but dense warrens of breeze-block shanties.
From the economist.com
This corresponds to a lump of diamond around the size of a breeze block for every tankful of petrol.
From the newscientist.com