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Example Sentences
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"I grabbed my sons and ran round the block of flats screaming for everyone to get out," she said.
From BBC
"Everything was blocked off so it wasn't a case of going to see what had happened."
From BBC
Littler has previously been subjected to booing in overseas tournaments and world number nine Gerwyn Price famously wore ear defenders in 2023 to block out the crowd noise.
From BBC
Holmes and Watson first appeared in the novel “A Study in Scarlet,” published in 1887, but the estate attempted to block an anthology of Holmes stories by outside authors planned for 2013.
From Los Angeles Times
Five miles south of downtown Los Angeles, a single industrial block in Vernon is drawing as much electricity as a small town.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
