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Blocking in sentence

314 examples of Blocking in a sentence

We tried turning them down, we tried blocking them, nothing was working.
This seemed to indicate that whatever was getting in the way and blocking the starlight was not circular like a planet.
This means that whatever is blocking its light has an area of over 1,000 times the area of our planet Earth.
And so what was happening had to be astrophysical, meaning that something in space was getting in the way and blocking starlight.
The corporate gun lobby has spent billions of dollars blocking the CDC from doing research into the public health epidemic of gun violence; blocking pediatricians from talking to parents about the dangers of guns in the home; blocking smart-gun technology and other technology that would prevent kids from firing parents' guns and would save lives.
And the reason that it's blinking is because there are planets that are going past it all the time, and it's that special orientation where the planets are blocking the light from the star that allows us to see that light blinking.
And we think this is because you have an extended atmosphere of hydrogen all around the planet that's making it look puffier and thus blocking more of the light that you see.
So on my way into the store, there was this grown white guy in the doorway blocking my way.
So when they're coated on the inside of these bottles, they're actually blocking some of the UV radiation and diminishing the efficiency of the process.
Last year, the Great Firewall of China started blocking this network I created.
In fact, caffeine works by blocking adenosine's receptor pathways.
The Iranian government violently suppressed what came to be known as the Iranian Green Movement, even blocking mobile signals to cut off communication between the protesters.
Low, thick clouds like these are really good at blocking out the sun and ruining your barbecue, and high, wispy clouds like these cirrus largely let that sunlight stream through.
Clouds are blocking the view.
Once again, clouds are blocking the view.
This was important news for surgeons, but I needed to know how widespread it was: Where else was using AI blocking learning on the job?
So, the question is, why was I blocking it?
Why were other people blocking it?
Sickled cells snag and pile up– sometimes blocking the vessel completely.
It then feeds back an answer to the user by means of bone conduction, audio conducted through the skull into the user's inner ear, that the user hears, overlaid on top of the user's natural hearing of the environment, without blocking it.
If the light is slowed down and delayed in one arm, the waves recombine out of sync and cancel, blocking the light.
The norm of politeness was blocking their progress.
But as the chef starts to answer, the interrogator stands up, blocking your view.
And here we see the illustration of blocking the liver.
Like in real life, Self-Doubt is blocking the path, and it seems impossible to overcome it.
But I remember even at that young age that I found the tall electric fences blocking off the game parks quite divisive.
But they are dividing up areas and blocking corridors.
And I'm telling you, these elephants don't think much of it either, particularly if they're blocking a really special water hole where they need water, or if there's a very attractive female on the other side.
And you may think that anesthetics work by sending you into some deep sleep, or by blocking your receptors so that you don't feel pain, but in fact most anesthetics don't work that way.
But there are many institutions that are actually blocking this access.
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