concrete block
Example Sentences
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They are still demanding answers over the key question surrounding the crash: why was there a concrete block at the end of the runway, despite international aviation safety guidelines?
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
In 2018 - more than 20 years after the BRE's report - a concrete block fell from the ceiling of a school in Kent.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2023
On Monday night, Karimi’s house in the Tehran suburb of Lavasan was seized by the authorities, with a large concrete block placed at its entrance.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
The space was still a work in progress, with raw concrete block walls and the dome’s reinforcements still showing.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2022
There it stood now, as I stepped back into the shop, still tall and gleaming on its concrete block, but shorn now of eminence.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
