block
Example Sentences
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Undocumented families filled the street for a posada, a Latin American Christmas tradition akin to a roving block party, with music, food and an increasingly rare sense of safety.
From Los Angeles Times
Police said protesters blocked temple employees from leaving.
From Los Angeles Times
“If one side can block the other, then bad things don’t happen,” he said.
From Salon
On top of the cost of replacing locks on the site, concrete blocks would need to be be installed at the entrances to the site in a bid to block fly-tippers from entering.
From BBC
Ministry of Housing statistics for December show around 475 of the more than 5,500 blocks so far identified as unsafe have been completely fixed and certified as safe in the last 12 months.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
