blocking
Example Sentences
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Brayden McNabb took a puck to the visor blocking a Hurricanes shot.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Geren thought that the generals on the list would keep blocking the creative colonels.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
Protesters clashed with private security guards on Saturday in the region after gathering to register their anger at newly installed barbed wire blocking access to the beach.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
And as he ascended, James Dolan even turned on the patriarch, blocking his then-78-year-old father’s dream deal with a satellite TV business.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
The peasant farmers had watched the dam being built, but even when it began blocking the Artibonite River, forming a reservoir that flooded their farms, they felt stunned disbelief.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Vocabulary lists containing blocking
Academic and Literary Vocabulary, Unit 2
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