blockade
Example Sentences
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She was one of only three Senate Democrats who never joined her party’s blockade against a stopgap spending bill—along with King and Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman.
Ran economic blockades and encouraged American companies to treat the region’s riches, and its workers, like a cookie jar.
From Los Angeles Times
The blockade was initially imposed in 1962 and has been in place ever since.
From BBC
In recent months, U.S. enforcement actions against Venezuelan oil tankers, including seizures and a de facto blockade, have sharply curtailed exports, at times cutting them roughly in half.
From Barron's
Gulf Coast even after Washington imposed a blockade on blacklisted oil tankers traveling mostly to China and Cuba.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
