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block - use in sentences
Object
- doorway: Considerable repair work has taken place on the south wall, particularly over the blocked doorway.
Converse of object
- stumble: Internet trade however, has some stumbling blocks to its growth.
- barrack: I met the Station Commander at the entrance to the barrack block and he was accompanied by the Admin.
Adjective modifier
- stumbling: There may be problems with step kids, ex spouses or even some religious stumbling blocks for the marriage taking place.
- concrete: There are these huge concrete blocks, built where the ghetto used to be.
- stable: The grand stable block was designed by William Legg.
Modifies a noun
- paving: The modern garden however - together with its block paving, decking and designer ornaments doesn't ordinarily lend itself to a roaring blaze.
- cipher: Chapter four compares and reviews various existing block ciphers.
Noun used with modifier
- tower: Housing is mainly tower block apartments around the city center.
- apartment: Parking Area The apartment block has a secure private parking area below the building.
- building: Use wooden building blocks to explain the concept of surface area to volume.
- toilet: Then on Sunday Keith Davis turned his attention to completing the rear wall of the new toilet block from the outside.. .
- nerve: Your vet may be able to perform temporary nerve blocks to see if an anesthetic can temporarily stop the headshaking.
Possessives
- vagrant: A separate vagrants ' block was situated at the south of the workhouse.
Preposition: of
- flat: I remember being taken, aged 5 or 6 years old, into the garden next door to our block of flats.
- sandstone: In ' A ' with some yellow sandstone and narrow blocks of red sandstone.
Preposition: from
- southwest: Celbridge accommodation block from the southwest, 2002 © Peter Higginbotham.
- northwest: Belper new hospital block from the northwest, 2005. © Peter Higginbotham.
- southeast: Chester-le-Street main block from the southeast, 2001. © Peter Higginbotham.
- northeast: Brighton main block from the northeast, 2001. © Peter Higginbotham.
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