The investigators came up against a brick wall in their search for the missing money when they discovered it had been transferred overseas.

They all ran up against the brick wall of high cost until the cryogenic option was proven feasible in 1973.

One of the first problems with the digital audio process is the use of brick wall filters with very steep slopes for anti-aliasing and anti-imaging purposes.

To reconstruct the sampled signal, an ideal brick wall filter is demanded to remove the output of band signal.

For example, a first order filter can be converted to a brick wall filter by multiplying by the brick wall factor 1.57.

When mama says she doesn't talk, she means it. She's a brick wall.

"Does he talk much? I mean, does he initiate conversation?"
"No. He's a brick wall," I said.

Having uttered these benign assurances, Mr Burner III became a brick wall.

They forcefully imprisoned her in a decorative room and brick walled it.

Audio recorded too quietly means that there is more opportunity for noise, even in today's digital workflow. Audio recorded too loud will distort in the analog world, and will simply "brick wall" in digital terms.

The driver stopped the cab on the spot, brick-walled it then and there.

Baseball's unstoppable force -- the 2017 Los Angeles Dodgers -- ran smack into peak-form Verlander, who brick-walled their six-game winning streak.

They wanted to know how successful the attack had been. But you brick-walled them.

My rapid dial wouldn't work, and when I was finally able to get a Homeland Security office phone number to reach you, the receptionist brick walled me.

But he'd brick-walled her on something that obviously caused him pain.

Brick wall

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