How To Use Blocky In A Sentence
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The straight marlborough legs are chamfered on the inside corners to make them look less blocky and massive when viewed from an angle.
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Peds are blocky structures formed in soils as a result of wetting and drying processes under seasonal climate regimes.
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Nearly all the department stores dumped their venerable typefaces for blocky san-serif fonts.
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There are also recent acquisitions and promised gifts to admire: a sulfurous early farmscape by Mondrian; a shimmering Bonnard still life from 1926; a blocky, abstract sculpture in cast plaster by Georges Vantongerloo, also from 1926; and Magritte's enigmatic "White Race," from 1937, which dissects a female bather, evoking both Picasso's monstrous paintings of Olga and his pneumatic treatments of Marie-Thérèse Walter.
Museum Blogs
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Big, blocky and simple, the polyester resin floor forms include halved lozenges, pointy-sided rectangular boxes and cubes, sometimes stacked or partially slid one into the other.
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Its compact, blocky style of carving seems to emphasize durability.
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Blocky, chunky sandals and the 'flatform' (soon to be seen on every high street).
Times, Sunday Times
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The digital read-out showed ‘12 ‘in big, red, blocky numbers.’
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Often, it becomes more streamlined, more detailed and less blocky.
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As the son of a semipro athlete who played sandlot baseball and football into his early 40's, he came by that blocky, unbreakable body by way of genetic inheritance.
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The color reproduction is good but the image is blocky (especially in the background) and the contrast is way off.
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Now showing with Liverpool Street Gallery, Watkins' canvases are arrayed around the room like blocky Mayan glyphs done in colour combinations that take years to master.
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The stones include a 52.40 carat clean light fancy yellow diamond from Holpan; a 60.52 carat light yellow octahedral diamond from Saxendrift; a 74.99 carat clean white irregular blocky stone from Saxendrift; a 54.23 carat light yellow broken macle stone with inclusions from Saxendrift; and a 60.51 light yellow rounded flat stone with oxide coating and minor inclusions from Saxendrift.
IOL: News
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Characters are blocky and the colors contrast well.
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He was too blocky and upright for such a relaxed home, and I could see that he belonged in one of those modern apartments where everything is stainless steel.
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“The V-shaped subpubic angle, blocky pubic body, and broad ischio-pubic ramus suggest male.”
Spider Bones
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Texture can be an important control here; clay content is important in the creation of blocky, prismatic, and columnar structures.
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I think the statue sort of looks like big blocky concrete and is, like most modern art, ugly.
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First, when you zoom in on part of an image, the system doesn't tell you when the print will start to become blocky or ‘pixelated’.
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He put on a hat that came down over his blocky skull and changed the distinctive silhouette of his ears.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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As advertised, he moves better than his blocky build would suggest.
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The results are blocky, quirky landscapes shot through with colour that would light up any wall.
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In 1953 he designed the classic cast iron office tape dispenser in an elongated blocky base with circular shrouds gently sloping sides and a raised blade like a violin's bridge.
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The pictures came back blocky, out-of-focus and with the contrast all out of whack.
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It is just too blocky, too bulky, a very four-square building.
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They can be separated into three distinct groups of authigenic carbonates, including a first stage with botryoidal aragonite, a second stage of clotted micrite, and a third stage of blocky spar.
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One boy's picture captures perfectly the blocky angularity and monumental presence of Lawrence's three ironing women.
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When I first saw them, I remembered that on our first date she had worn blocky black sneakers which I couldn't help but find sexy.
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But there were many buildings like that in Beijing, short, gray, blocky.
SONS OF HEAVEN
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In fact, graphics were so blocky back then that the first few Leisure Suit Larry titles pixelated the naughty bits without even trying.
Muti
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The lobby was filled with blocky outsize chairs covered in black and white dogtooth check or lime-green or brown and white pinstripes, arranged around smoked-glass tables.
Sepulchre
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Plants form a tight rosette of leaves, not a long blocky head.
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We meant to simply repeat his route, but several pitches up, where that route goes up and right into blocky cracks, we angled up and left into the obvious dihedral that shoots to the top of the wall.
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These stones include a 52.40 carat clean light fancy yellow diamond from Holpan; a 60.52 carat light yellow octahedral diamond from Saxendrift; a 74.99 carat clean white irregular blocky stone from Saxendrift; a 54.23 carat light yellow broken macle stone with inclusions from Saxendrift; and a 60.51 light yellow rounded flat stone with oxide coating and minor inclusions from Saxendrift.
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The blocky, black, businesslike appearance of the stock pistol has been replaced by a two-tone visage that testifies unambiguously to extensive alteration.
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Only a handful of high-quality azurite in equant blocky crystals to 4 cm have been found in these pockets so far.
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It is just too blocky, too bulky, a very four-square building.
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After a quarter mile, we turn off into a steep hillside broken by blocky outcrops of granite interspersed with snowfields and patches of green.
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The entry was signed in a flourish, so completely different to the blocky spidery writing that was the previous entries.
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A diverting entertainment nonetheless, this is one book not to judge by its blocky lime-green cover or its bland layout.
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But some early baseball caps sat up, blocky, like what tops the crowns of French gendarmes.
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Nearby, a grease-stained phone list written in large, blocky capitals: DR.
Lunch Hour
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Cuboid cores are prepared blocky-like cubes of chert, with blades often produced on six sides.
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The sub-demo quality's most annoying attribute is the blocky digital clipping that happens whenever the voice recorder is overloaded, which is often.
Pitchfork: Latest News
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The south facade is a curiously flat and blocky affair, only partly leavened by the awkward, two-bay, single-column upper arcade, the unsatisfactorily cinched lower entablature, the four eccentric little ground-floor windows, and the raised platform supporting it all.
Archive 2009-03-01
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A diverting entertainment nonetheless, this is one book not to judge by its blocky lime-green cover or its bland layout.
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Small, blocky shapes of towns, fields, and pastures surround the graceful swirls and whorls of the Mississippi River.
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Further inshore, the blocky outlines of the cliffs of Dover had been erased by patches of fog.
CORMORANT
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Further inshore, the blocky outlines of the cliffs of Dover had been erased by patches of fog.
CORMORANT
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I found the big, blocky soap to be uncomfortable and difficult to handle.
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The town, a ski resort in winter (and site of the 1956 Winter Olympics), is a kind of anti-Aspen: elegant and luxe yet warmly human, full of comfortable old hotels built in a blocky chalet style.
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Lighting effects are unparalleled, the textures never appear blocky or blurry, and the performances by the character models really heightens the atmosphere.
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It was a light shade of gray, and had a blocky appearance.
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He handed her a small brown paper bag with ‘Fantasy Folio’ written on the outside in bold blocky letters.
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These blocky shapes are fantastic for creating flat areas of color that group content together.
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Not only is it busy movement-wise, the stage is a feast of visuals, with a blocky, retro cityscape pattern backdropping the slinky white and black costumes of the dancers.
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Its compact, blocky style of carving seems to emphasize durability.
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The tight wire mesh seems out of synch with the blocky wood décor typical of state parks, and I am puzzled by its impenetrability.
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These call attention to tie fact that Frey's large sculptures often look like ordinary, blocky statuettes or cheap figurines that have been enlarged to humongous size.
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From behind blocky horn-rimmed glasses he blinked out at the world like a perpetually startled and slightly confused owl.
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Plants form a tight rosette of leaves, not a long blocky head.
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Further up section the geology is dominated by a succession of unmetamorphosed but strongly fractured and veined blocky andesites, basalts and tuffaceous rocks.
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Mr. Rubbino's style is pleasantly mod—a combination of blocky colors and fine lines—but a closer look reveals its contemporaneousness.
A Vintage Look for Picture Books
