blockage
Example Sentences
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Sometimes bowel cancer can stop waste passing through your system, which can cause a blockage.
From BBC
If they should come upon a blockage—a fallen rock, anything—they were doomed.
From Literature
They clatter and scatter, creating a terrible blockage and commotion.
From Literature
Communications blockages have also made it hard to learn about their fates.
"The technical teams are ready but cannot reach the area because of the blockage of Salang pass," said Mohammad Sadiq, the spokesman for Afghanistan's national power utility DABS.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
