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Example sentences for "blocking"

Lexicographically close words:
blocked; blockhead; blockheads; blockhouse; blockhouses; blockish; blocks; blockships; blocky; blocs
  1. The Major drove rapidly from the station to the Temple, and found a travelling carriage already before him, and blocking up the narrow Temple Lane.

  2. After we get to Calais we will have to strike direct for Paris; that is unless we learn that one of the numerous German armies has cut across the road, blocking our way.

  3. A shell exploding on the bridge killed and wounded the mules of a heavy wagon, which was instantly overturned, completely blocking the passage for other wheels.

  4. The way you took that clerk out, I thought you might have played blocking back for the Green Bay Packers.

  5. Rick started to yell a protest, then a burnoose was tossed over his head and wrapped tightly around his chest, blocking out the light.

  6. And for visible answer to my last question I saw the infernal Thing blocking my path in the twilight.

  7. I can't get past him, I can't get round him, and on the other hand he stands glaring at me, refusing to give way and practically blocking all my future.

  8. The entrance to Manila Bay is rather narrow, and Corregidor lies a little to one side in it like a stone blocking a doorway.

  9. I watched her, saw her glistening brown body--perfectly visible through the filmy material of her single garment--dive under the last row of seats and emerge triumphant at the front while the press was still blocking the aisles.

  10. Nor could she walk hour after hour up and down the street always keeping in motion lest the policeman call out at her that she was blocking the way.

  11. What are you doing blocking the street this way?

  12. Once, whilst thus engaged, he saw lying across the road right in front of him and the cattle, and completely blocking up the way, Satan with his head on one wall and his tail on the other, moaning horribly.

  13. But these superstitions have departed, as intimated by the blocking up of north church doors.

  14. The pistols of the Dragoons cracked; three fell, blocking the stairs with their bodies.

  15. He surged toward me, but my sword was out, the steel blocking his advance.

  16. At the same instant my ears caught the lieutenant's dismissing order, even as my eyes had glimpse of Swanson's broad back blocking the open doorway of a room nearly opposite.

  17. Gaud calculates that polymerisation cannot cause blocking of the burners unless the speed of the passing gas is so far reduced that the burner is only delivering one- sixth of its proper volume.

  18. The leading company was followed by bombing parties on the right and left flanks, and by a blocking party of eight sappers of the 1st Field Company Canadian Engineers.

  19. As Caliban fell he had clambered up, and was now blocking the entrance.

  20. On the fourth and narrowest side there was the shoulder of rocks, not only blocking them, but affording a perfect shelter for Nash and his men, for they did not doubt that it was he.

  21. For a step had creaked on the floor, and she looked up to find Steve Nash standing in the centre of the room with the firelight gloomily about him; behind, blocking the door with his squat figure, stood Shorty Kilrain.

  22. Prayer-book "is on the way to become a useless encumbrance, the rubbish of the past, blocking the road.

  23. To them, it is not "a useless encumbrance, the rubbish of the past, blocking the road.

  24. After blocking the line for some days, the still-loaded cars might be sent back again, no fewer than 142 of such cars being returned on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad in the course of a single day.

  25. The Lewis gun sections were brought up and placed in suitable positions to protect a further advance and also the blocking party in the small C.

  26. The blocking of the adjoining trenches and consolidation of the captured lines was at once put in hand.

  27. If this hypothesis is correct, the physiological slackening of assimilation is not due to the toxic action of the copper in the Bordeaux mixture, but to a mechanical hindrance due to blocking of the stomata.

  28. There he set his pillow and stretched his long body diagonally across the narrow hall, blocking it like a gate.

  29. When Hammer did something that pleased her, she nodded; when the prosecutor interposed, or seemed to be blocking the progress of the case, she shook her head in severe censure.

  30. He was standing in the door, blocking it with his body, clenching the jamb with his hands on either side, as if to bar any attempt that she might make to pass.

  31. Plate 58, represents the neck of the bladder and neighbouring part of the urethra of an ox, in which a polypous growth is seen attached by a long pedicle to the veru montanum and blocking up the neck of the bladder.

  32. A globular excrescence, a, appears blocking up the vesical orifice, and giving to this the appearance of a crescentic slit, corresponding to the shape of the obstructing body.

  33. By the time he had got all his men over, he found Vandamme holding positions, hastily prepared but sufficiently well chosen, and blocking his way to the south.

  34. And then when a sufferer wanted towels, and wanted 'em quick, he could get them without blocking the wheels of progress and industry.

  35. Incidentally she was blocking the path of a number of people who had come down the aisle immediately behind us.

  36. The echoing of that bull voice along these galleries might cause the blocking of our passage, caging us in here like rats in a hole.

  37. Along the edge I could observe the rather dim outlines of an immense altar, built of detached stones, rising to a considerable height, and partially blocking the entrance.

  38. We could but stand in silence, gazing upon the broad, impassable sheet of water, blocking further advance.

  39. And before I knew it, I was blocking in magnificent plans for her education, for making a splendid woman of her, even though she already seemed perfect, of supplementing nature's handiwork with all the force that was in me.

  40. My nephew Randolph and a companion, a tall gawky boy coming into the house at that moment, stood in their raincoats at the dining-room door and gaped, blocking Alicia's path.

  41. Over this the sand and mud collected rapidly, practically blocking the channel, and causing the downfall of what was at one time one of the chief ports in the south.

  42. He also saw the great iron cable which was used for blocking the harbour entrance in times of feared attack.

  43. This is a private car," he said shortly, blocking my way.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blocking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arrest; blackout; block; blockade; censorship; check; closure; coating; constriction; conversion; cramp; delay; delirium; delusion; departure; detention; disadvantage; dispersion; dissipation; dissolution; eclipse; enumeration; envelopment; erasure; evaporation; extinction; fading; fixation; going; hallucination; hampering; hiding; holdup; impediment; incrustation; inhibition; interference; interruption; let; melting; nihilism; obstruction; occlusion; occultation; opposition; parsing; passing; prevention; repression; resistance; resolution; restraint; restriction; retardation; scansion; setback; sheathing; squeeze; stop; stranglehold; stricture; sublimation; suppression; upholstery; vanishing; wipe; nihilism; obstruction; occlusion; occultation; opposition; parsing; passing; prevention; repression; resistance; resolution; restraint; restriction; retardation; scansion; setback; sheathing; squeeze; stop; stranglehold; stricture; sublimation; suppression; upholstery; vanishing; wipe