Example Sentences

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“Don’t expect it all to be started at once, this will build. Blockades take time to have an impact.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Blockades are also taking place at several border crossings with Ukraine.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024

Blockades also severed more than a dozen other highways, Vinci said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024

Blockades have affected mines, hitting shares and buoying prices of the metal.

From Reuters • Feb. 22, 2023

Blockades of snow twice stopped our train and shovel ploughs had to be used.

From Sixty Years of California Song by Alverson, Margaret Blake