en bloc
Example Sentences
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“They were just informing me as to what they were going to do, as members do all the time. That they did it en bloc made it very, very important.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2019
“In a piecemeal way we’ve been doing that for years, but now we can take it en bloc and I don’t mind telling you we’re rather excited.”
From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2015
The en bloc type, they can last hours.
From Salon • Jun. 21, 2015
"There is a risk that people end up feeling that religious groups, en bloc, are against same-sex couples completely," he added.
From BBC • Jul. 4, 2012
The disposition of every American is to take over a whole contract en bloc, which in England, where every man is a specialist, would be split into twenty different transactions.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
