Sentences with block
block
B b - ...blocks of council flats. [+ of]
- She walked four blocks down High Street.
- ...a block of ice. [+ of]
- Some students today blocked a highway that cuts through the center of the city. [VERB noun]
- ...a row of spruce trees that blocked his view of the long north slope of the mountain. [VERB noun]
- I started to move round him, but he blocked my way. [VERB noun]
- For years the country has tried to block imports of various cheap foreign products. [VERB noun]
- In the final seconds, Gunn goalie Kevin Cantwell blocked two shots. [VERB noun]
- Those booking a block of seats get them at reduced rates. [+ of]
- A wig block
- A block booking
- To block a hat
- To block the traffic
- A butcher's block, headsman's block
- A block of tickets
- Heart block, kidney block
- block coal
- I'm going for a walk around the block.
- He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
- The place you are looking for is two long blocks east and one short block north.
- I'll knock your block off.
- A block of 100 tickets.
- There's a block in the pipe that means the water can't get through.
- The match proved an unedifying spectacle until Spurs won a corner following their first move of real quality, John Mensah making an important block with Jermain Defoe poised to strike.
- The pipe is blocked.
- You're blocking the road – I can't get through.
- His plan to take over the business was blocked by the boss.
- He blocked the basketball player's shot. The offensive linemen tried to block the blitz.
- It was very difficult to block this scene convincingly.
- I tried to send you a message, but you've blocked me!
- When the condition expression is false, the thread blocks on the condition variable.
- I blocked the mittens by wetting them and pinning them to a shaped piece of cardboard.
- To block one's exit; to block up a passage.
- To block a hat; to block a sweater.
- Tomorrow we'll block act one.
- He doesn't get many baskets, but he sure can block.
- The director will block tomorrow.
- To put family heirlooms on the block.