block

Example Sentences

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A block later I hobbled past the Justice Department, its facade festooned with a giant banner of Trump’s face.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

For the Czech Republic v South Africa, tickets for block 122 with a face value of £342 were below £190 on SeatGeek and StubHub.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Bomb squad investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to the 6100 block of Rhodes Avenue shortly before 9:30 a.m. following reports of a suspicious device, according to a department spokesperson.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

“If you block your data, you only see the list price,” says Ginger Zhe Jin, an economist at the University of Maryland who studies personalized pricing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

First a dung cart rolled down the block, pulled by a scrawny brown horse that kept twitching its muscles to shoo the flies off its back.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan