blocking
Example Sentences
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Iran has been blocking foreign tankers from the channel, only allowing select ships to pass through, including some from Malaysia and India.
With his other hand, Ben pushes aside leafy branches blocking our gravel path, and we step into a grassy clearing.
From Literature
I think about blocking his number, but part of me wants to see that he’s trying, even if it’s to blame me for everything he did.
From Literature
Around him, the trails of fire were converging, moments from blocking his path to the stairs.
From Literature
After a week getting steroids and pain medicine at Providence St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica, he received the biopsy results: an extremely aggressive malignant mass was blocking blood flow to Duong’s optic nerve.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
