Sample Sentences forblockade (editor-reviewed)
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Navy ships set up a blockade to stop supplies from reaching the island.blockade = a barrier blocking passage
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The protesters formed a blockade across the main highway.blockade = a blocking barrier
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They could not get weapons past the naval blockade.blockade = action to keep people and goods from reaching a location
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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 U. S. is putting up a naval blockade.† (source)
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Through the broken doorway was a fallen tower of trunks and dressers; a failed blockade.† (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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The blockade had been lifted, the SS trucks had driven away.† (source)
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I blockaded the door and locked us in the bathroom.† (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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"Blockade," the president said, "an ugly word."† (source)
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A skilled strategist like Sharmak could have blockaded us out here on this barren, stony point, and we'd have needed to kill a lot of guys to get out.† (source)
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