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

The like message had already gone to Brieg, some days before, and the Blockading Body, a good few thousand strong, quitted Brieg, as we saw, and effected their junction with him.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Carlyle, Thomas

To the Senior Officer at the different Blockading Stations on the Coast of Georgia and Florida.

From Army Life in a Black Regiment by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Blockading work is very hard upon officers and men.

From Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain by Holmes, Prescott