Example Sentences

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Blockading merchant ships violates the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and is illegal, she noted.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Blockading rather than attempting to overrun the facility would free up Russian forces for deployment elsewhere in the east, a British military assessment said Friday.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2022

He hurried at once to Washington, where he was appointed commander of the Western Gulf Blockading Squadron.

From Four American Naval Heroes Paul Jones, Admiral Farragut, Oliver H. Perry, Admiral Dewey by Beebe, Mabel

Twix' the Forties and Fifties, South-eastward the drift is, And so, when we think we are making Land's End, Alas! it is Ushant With half the King's Navy, Blockading French ports against poor honest men!

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard

Employed on the Planter, a steamer plying in Charleston harbor as a transport, which he took over Charleston Bar in May, 1862, and delivered her and his services to the U. S. Blockading Squadron.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 by Various