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Example sentences for "roadblock"

Lexicographically close words:
roach; roaches; road; roadbed; roadbeds; roade; roadhouse; roadless; roadman; roadmaster
  1. Once the roadblock was in place and camouflaged, the captain requested that a truck bring hot meals for his men.

  2. Ten yards past the roadblock he turned around and looked at Malone.

  3. I hear there's a roadblock up now, and they're searching all the cars.

  4. Malone got the car going; the roadblock was lifted for him and he went on by.

  5. They first checked the roadblock at Pennsylvania Avenue and Broadway.

  6. The south shelter monitor and military police set up a roadblock where Broadway intersected Pennsylvania Avenue (1).

  7. Next they drove to the roadblock at Vatican Road and Broadway.

  8. After Guard Post 2 was reoccupied, the chief monitor returned to the roadblock at the intersection of Broadway and the North Shelter Road.

  9. A quarter of a mile ahead of the fugitives, the first of the four roadblock units came plowing over the rise.

  10. The fugitive car flashed past the site of the abandoned roadblock and fifteen seconds later all four patrol cars racing ahead of the Travelaire broke into almost simultaneous reports of "Here he comes.

  11. At the roadblock forty-five miles ahead of the speeding fugitives and their relentless pursuer, the four patrol cars pivoted and spread out across the roadway some five hundred feet apart.

  12. The fighting was fierce, nonetheless, and it shattered the hastily erected Marine roadblock between the battalions.

  13. A 19-man roadblock held up the Marines, but was taken out quickly.

  14. The next morning Companies I and M held the roadblock as L and F conducted another counterattack preceded by a half-hour artillery preparation.

  15. Company I, 3d Battalion, quickly secured and destroyed a roadblock that the enemy had constructed the previous day.

  16. On the morning of 28 October, Colonel Zierath had the 1st Battalion establish a roadblock north of the Binahaan River in the vicinity of Macalpe.

  17. On one occasion a company called for artillery fire upon a roadblock and then withdrew 350 yards while the concentration was delivered.

  18. On 29 October Company K left Pastrana and established a roadblock at Ypad.

  19. Meanwhile the Japanese had again covered the roadblock and the whole process had to be repeated.

  20. The troopers, after running down and killing five Japanese in a canoe, arrived at La Paz, Samar, their destination, without further excitement and established a roadblock on the road leading to Basey.

  21. In co-operation with the advance of Captain Young's force, the 3d Platoon of Company C, which had established the roadblock at the Highway 1 crossing of Labiranan River on A Day, moved out just below Labiranan Head and hit the Japanese flank.

  22. Company F was then relieved by the 2d Battalion, 184th Infantry, which established a roadblock nearer the main highway.

  23. Company C placed a roadblock at the point where Highway 1 crossed the Labiranan River.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roadblock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bank; bar; barrage; barricade; barrier; block; blockade; boom; breakwater; breastwork; buffer; bulkhead; bulwark; dam; defense; dike; ditch; earthwork; embankment; fence; gate; groin; jam; jetty; levee; moat; mole; mound; parapet; rampart; roadblock; seawall; stop; wall; work