Sample Sentences for
blockade
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    The Yankee blockade about the Confederate ports had tightened, and luxuries such as tea, coffee, silks, whalebone stays, colognes, fashion magazines and books were scarce and dear.  (source)
    blockade = war measure that prevents transfer of goods
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    You've done so in spite of threats--the Soviet attempts to impose the East-mark, the blockade.  (source)
    blockade = action to keep people and goods from reaching a location
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    The Sixers had dispersed their grand army across the globe in a bold attempt to blockade all 512 copies of the Zork playing field.†  (source)
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    Six hundred heads turned slowly from side to side, looking at the blockade of teachers on either side of the gym.†  (source)
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    White neighborhoods in Baltimore blockaded their streets, attempting to confine the damage of the Riots to its poorer, darker jurisdictions.†  (source)
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    Caught on the flank, by the Rue SaintPierre-aux-Boeufs, and in the rear through the Rue du Parvis, driven to bay against Notre-Dame, which they still assailed and Quasimodo defended, at the same time besiegers and besieged, they were in the singular situation in which Comte Henri Harcourt, ~Taurinum obsessor idem et obsessus~, as his epitaph says, found himself later on, at the famous siege of Turin, in 1640, between Prince Thomas of Savoy, whom he was besieging, and the Marquis de Leganez, who was blockading him.†  (source)
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    Mark Resner eyed her from where he stood by a large wall map, working with two detectives on plotting a network of blockades.†  (source)
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    Everyone else surely felt the same, but turnips were the only vegetable available now with the British naval blockade.†  (source)
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    It did not appear to be the duty of these two men to know what was occurring at the center of the bridge; they merely blockaded the two ends of the foot planking that traversed it.†  (source)
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    Blockading is a business with me and I'm making money out of it.†  (source)
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    The women—our mothers-in-law and the others—put up even greater blockades against us.†  (source)
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    The UN condemned the invasion, demanded a withdrawal, placed economic sanctions on Iraq, and formed a blockade.†  (source)
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    I blockaded the door and locked us in the bathroom.†  (source)
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