concrete block
Example Sentences
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They are still demanding answers over the key question surrounding the crash: why was there a concrete block at the end of the runway, despite international aviation safety guidelines?
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
In some of the city's concrete block hotels, usually packed only once a year by pilgrims, families have been found rooms, paid for by Jewish foundations.
From BBC ● May 8, 2022
“A concrete block for an Amazon headquarters on this terrain is egregious and obscene,” said Tauriq Jenkins, who leads about two dozen Indigenous groups opposed to the development.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2022
Many workers now live in a two-story concrete block surrounded by a metal fence and watched over by Serbian security guards who bar entry to outsiders.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2022
Behind the low counter, half a dozen women hovered over waist-high stoves made of concrete block.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
