How To Use City block In A Sentence
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In the larger cities (above all Rome and Ostia) there were also examples of more plebeian housing, generally small in size and located on the first floor of the large residences that occupied entire city blocks.
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What kind of maniac, moreover, would deliberately ignite 20 pounds of explosives without first clearing the area by several city blocks at least (or in my case, repairing to our finished basement a block away)?
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Young Tess and her neighborhood friends are broiling in the hot sun, their inner city block having been deprived of moisture for a long time.
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He can lay a haymaker on a punk that will send him sailing through the air for almost half of a city block.
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Huge city blocks reached high into the sky and a tramline ran on tracks suspended forty feet in the air.
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Alex was leaning forward into the window in front of him like a cat watching a chipmunk, except that the chipmunk was the size of a city block.
The Whale Warriors
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On a scary mountain road near the peak of Red Mountain Pass we met a motorhome about the size of a city block.
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It was as high as an apartment building and as long as a city block.
Bomber
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Long lines of cars, taxis and buses coiled around city blocks and suburban streets.
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It was as high as an apartment building and as long as a city block.
Bomber
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More artillery, more tanks, more machine-gun fire, ominous death-dealing fighter planes terminating whole city blocks at a time this wasn't a war, it was a massacre!
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At one point, police cordoned off a city block after several dozen demonstrators jeered and razzed the incoming audience.
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Each spider was half a city block blazing furiously.
Bomber
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It spans five city blocks, comprising twenty-seven buildings and thousands of rooms.
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I envision buildings perhaps 30 stories high covering an entire city block.
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Other service members, sick of MREs, "freelanced" and bought cut-up chicken at the nearby bazaar, a long city block of mud stalls with straw roofs where you can also pick up a live goat or lamb, not to mention cut-rate Viagra.
Undefined
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Various diseases all too often swept through entire city blocks of tenements.
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Each spider was half a city block blazing furiously.
Bomber
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Soon after, the label settled into an expansive office compound on Sunset Boulevard that encompassed an entire city block.
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When I interviewed Nora Balaban who studied mbira in Zimbabwe, she told me of a master player named Garikayi Tirikoti who was living only a few city blocks from me.
Michal Shapiro: The Good News From Zimbabwe: Healing Music of the Mbira
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It was as high as an apartment building and as long as a city block.
Bomber
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They created a network of more or less typical city blocks, some with alleyways and private drives.
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Libby Prison encompassed an entire city block in Richmond.
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Interior hallways run nearly the length of a city block, and could have resembled an endless, generic motel corridor.
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Some of the most successful moments of the project therefore were the spontaneous reactions and participation from the unknowing public, and the happenings that characterise this particular city block.
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On the Panamanian side, city blocks were plotted along radial avenues.
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Three government workers labored to fill a dump truck with freshly cut trees over the holiday weekend — clearing just a portion of a single city block would be an all-day affair.
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Three government workers labored to fill a dump truck with freshly cut trees over the holiday weekend — clearing just a portion of a single city block would be an all-day affair.
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Many a pleasant evening the two spent there, talking of locomotive planished iron, wire nails, and turnbuckles, and the late lunch Miss Monon served beat the system's regular buffet service a city block.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
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The sounds of machines whirring and bells ringing could be heard as far away as a city block.
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Granted, I don't visit it as often as I should, opting for its smaller but more convenient local offshoot in my city, but walking through (and conveniently getting lost inside) the city block-sized bookstore is nothing short of awesome.
Bookstore Appreciation Time!
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The Marines found that one out of every four city blocks contained a major weapons storage area.
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It was as high as an apartment building and as long as a city block.
Bomber
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WASHINGTON The line trickled from the MCI Center box office half a city block down around the corner.
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The area was divided into territories, just like in "West Side Story," except that these were not hubcap-stealing Puerto Ricans in Spanish Harlem settling their differences with the occasional knife-fight; no siree, the downtown guys were seriously into guns and shoot-outs that consumed entire city blocks, slaughtering the innocent and the guilty with equal magnanimity.
A Gangster Goes to War
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It's called a caisson, which is a huge, watertight wooden box half the size of a city block.
Rands In Repose
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Occupying an entire city block and dominated by a cluster of twelve monumental metal silos, it dates from 1912, when its offices, malthouse, brewery and cellar were erected.
