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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