blocking

How To Use blocking In A Sentence

• Now they know a two-pronged approach is needed: blocking the virus and rebuilding the damaged immune system.
• This paradox arises either through the blocking of memory, or under oppressive regimes through torture and fear of the consequences of testifying.
• We didn't commit to any blocking and did the 13-hour drive to Winnipeg learning the lines.
• She heard him curse softly and then he shifted his wait, effectively blocking her attempt at freedom.
• Everything takes much longer, as too many people are boarding at any one time and blocking the aisles near the prime seats.
• By putting up the fence, are you blocking out the view of a wonderful tree in a neighbouring plot, or perhaps a church spire in the distance? Times, Sunday Times
• One of the league's best blocking fullbacks and an improving runner, Christian missed the final two games in 1998 and all of the playoffs after tearing the ACL and MCL in the same knee.
• Oblivious, the party bosses clung on, negotiating pacts and deals, blocking any new ideas or initiatives.
• In his final season, he again graded 93.5 percent for blocking consistency, but without the cast on his hand, he developed into a dominant drive blocker. USATODAY.com
• At this point the imagery begins to repeat itself in different iterations, as it will for the rest of the novel: The man is at the station where the woman is now looking at him "vacantly"; the dog appears again, blocking his path; he walks along the street, where "a cyclist is trying to pedal along," the fish in his saddle bag now joined by a loaf of bread on top of it. Experimental Fiction