blockade

Example Sentences

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While traffic has almost returned to normal, some petrol stations that closed at the start of the blockade have not yet reopened, AFP journalists reported.

From Barron's

This blockade helps keep a mother's fully formed immune system from reacting to the fetus and potentially responding as if the fetus was a foreign threat such as a viral or bacterial invader.

From Science Daily

But people living in the blockaded enclave say there is nowhere safe to go.

From Los Angeles Times

The two nations have since cooperated in enforcing a 16-year blockade of Gaza, and in the delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the enclave after the Hamas-led Oct.

From New York Times

Some said they received meals such as chicken and rice, at least initially; others subsisted mainly on bread, especially as hunger took hold across a blockaded Gaza.

From Los Angeles Times