Example collocations logo

Blocked in sentence

418 examples of Blocked in a sentence

Cardiologists can reopen the blocked artery by inflating it with a balloon in a procedure called an angioplasty.
In 20 years, Brady background checks at federally licensed firearm dealers have blocked 2.4 million gun sales to those people that we all agree shouldn't have guns.
Meanwhile, farmers throughout the country blocked major roads.
If you look at my calendar, you will see every working day one and a half hours from 7pm to 8:30pm UAE time blocked and called "family time."
For example, last year, a CEO of a company that acts as a gatekeeper for nine million websites decided, after some public pressure, that one of the sites it manages, a far right page, should be blocked.
For humans whose dark skin effectively blocked whatever sunlight there was, vitamin D deficiency would have posed a serious threat in the north.
In libraries across the country that charge fines, the poorest neighborhoods have the most number of people blocked from use.
There was a library in San Francisco that did an amnesty day last year, and they welcomed back 5,000 users who had been blocked.
Unconcerned, praetor Claudius Glaber took an army of three thousand men to the rebel’s refuge at Mount Vesuvius, and blocked off the only passage up the mountain.
It holds open a blocked artery when it gets to its destination, but it needs to be much smaller for the trip there, through your blood vessels.
They were actually blocked from even forming a party under the political system there.
So fires were unintentionally blocked by roads and railroads, the cattle and sheep ate the grass, then along comes fire suppression and logging, removing the big trees, and you know what happened?
The marchers carried on even as a mob blocked the route, hurling insults and spitting at women, tossing cigars, and physically assaulting participants.
And we know that the Inuit killed the Norse and, probably of greater importance, may have blocked access to the outer fjords, on which the Norse depended for seals at a critical time of the year.
But these are short-range signals: they get absorbed by moisture in the air, or blocked by tall buildings.
We get angry in situations that are unpleasant, that feel unfair, where our goals are blocked, that could have been avoided, and that leave us feeling powerless.
Well, with the pig, at the baseline, before we blocked the pig's artery to simulate a heart attack, that was the signal.
There was a video there that the government did not like and they wanted to make sure it was blocked.
And within two minutes, it reverberates around and YouTube is blocked everywhere in the world.
I guess I'll move on," but suddenly a collective consciousness about what is blocked and censored where online.
Because she believed that the only way to unblock what, at the time, was known as a blocked democracy, Italy, a country run by the same party for 35 years was the arms struggle.
Wouldn't it be nice to have something that actually blocked common colds?
We have major problems in disrupted ecosystem flow that the pyramid may not be working so well, that the flow from the base up into it is being blocked and clogged.
After a snowstorm, the roads are blocked and the highway patrolman Jason (Adam Beach) comes to the diner of his friend Fritz (Jurgen Prochnow) and advises his clients that they will only be able to follow their trips on the next day.
It begins in Tokyo with some schoolgirls who wander into the house, now heavily blocked by one strip of police tape.
In her defence, each (prat?) fall was probably blocked, choreographed, and rehearsed.
Sita still cared enough for him to find that moment to let him know that he is not responsible for her deviant outlet to her blocked desires.
In this movie you can watch new Italian style as well, but is not blocked into clichés.
The college teacher Larry Donner (Billy Cristal) is a blocked writer since his former wife Margareth (Kate Mulgrew) ruined him, stealing his novel that became a best-seller.
At the moment they were delivered, planet Saturn was blocked by both the sun and the moon and, due to this, the kids are emotionless and seemly without conscience.
BackNext