en bloc

Example Sentences

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“They were just informing me as to what they were going to do, as members do all the time. That they did it en bloc made it very, very important.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2019

“In a piecemeal way we’ve been doing that for years, but now we can take it en bloc and I don’t mind telling you we’re rather excited.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2015

The en bloc type, they can last hours.

From Salon • Jun. 21, 2015

Hibbard, 29, and his colleagues were retained en bloc for this weekend's Six Nations game after their heroics against France in Paris the Saturday before last.

From The Guardian • Feb. 21, 2013

The small remaining scraps of the property of emigrants, long threatened and plucked at now and again, were actually seized en bloc.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis