blockading

How To Use blockading In A Sentence

• A fleet blockading Brest could run to Tor Bay in a westerly tempest — the strategy of the past fifty years had been based on that geographical fact. Hornblower And The Crisis
• Banning parties and blockading raves will not stop a movement, nor will it stop the use of ecstasy, cocaine, speed, heroin and pot for that matter.
• Piraeus by blockading them by land and sea, and so cutting them off from all supplies, supported the application, and negotiated the loan of one hundred talents (13) to his clients, backed by the appointment of himself as harmost on land, and of his brother, Libys, as admiral of the fleet. Hellenica
• Protesters responded by blockading the streets, piling rocks and logs onto roads.
• The Rainbow Warrior had been blockading the military port until police boarded the ship on Saturday night and cut her anchor chain forcing the ship into dock.
• A demand was then made by the so-called blockading powers that the sums ascertained to be due to their citizens by such mixed commissions should be accorded payment in full before anything was paid upon the claims of any of the so-called peace powers. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
• There is no way that such a blockade, even with Congressional blessing would ever be allowed, considering that in blockading Iran is basically a strategic take over of the main waterway of the majority of the World’s oil supply. Stung By FISA, Group to Drop Money Bomb - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
• Banning parties and blockading raves will not stop a movement, nor will it stop the use of ecstasy, cocaine, speed, heroin and pot for that matter.
• The necessity and the difficulty of thus watching the squadrons of an enemy within his ports -- of "blockading" them, to use a common expression, of "containing" them, to conform to a strictly accurate military terminology -- are more familiar to the British naval mind than to ours; for, both by long historical experience and by present-day needs, the vital importance of so narrowly observing the enemy's movements has been forced upon its consciousness. Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles
• The RNC 8 deny having any operational involvement in the sandbag incident, but admit that some members may have planned acts of "civil disobedience," such as blockading the Xcel Center. AltWeeklies.com Site Feed