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Example Sentences

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Hong Kong officials may be trying to block repayment to him by seizing that $70 million loan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

In the sky above the northern city of Nahariya, Israel's air defence interceptors shot up to block them, triggering loud explosions.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

On Tuesday, police responded to the 1100 block of Hesby Street in Valley Village at 8:30 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

When President John F. Kennedy warned the Soviet Union that the U.S. military would block ships ferrying nuclear missiles to Cuba in 1962, he called the action “a strict quarantine.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

“Educated guesses at what a particular block of cipher text might actually mean,” Welchman explains.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin