This page shows Blockade in 20 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like block or obstruct. Useful when writing or proofreading a text.
Blockade in a sentence
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Blockade meaning
- The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
- Any form of formal isolation or inhibition of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
- The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
Synonyms of Blockade
Example sentences (20)
Indeed, there was before then a blockade, dispossession and the denial of food, water, and other vital necessities.
It has also intensified its years-long blockade of Gaza, often preventing humanitarian aid from reaching the area.
Gaza has been under an Israel-Egyptian blockade since 2007 when Hamas, which opposes peace with Israel, took control.
A senior aide to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday blamed Stepanakert for the continuing blockade.
Dalidowicz told jurors that police were faced with a challenging situation when the blockade began that January.
He will give a presentation on Privateers, Buccaneers and Blockade Runners, Part 3. Light refreshments will be served.
Some of the vehicles were being diverted through Balibhasha in Jhargram to bypass the blockade, officials said.
Bulloch enjoys some success, supplying the South with a number of blockade runners, war munitions, and commerce raiders.
Democrats at the time were frustrated with a Republican blockade of then-President Obama’s judicial nominees.
The ministry said it “condemns” the blockade and is “deeply concerned about the humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh”.
The country is beset by a violent civil war, an economic blockade and increasingly severe natural disasters.
It has been under Israeli military occupation and blockade and can best be described as an open-air prison.
Alex Goodsir, 17, says students from as far as Perth and Adelaide were travelling to Newcastle to take part in the blockade.
Pawlowski was charged for his participation in the blockade at the Canada-United States border crossing in southern Alberta.
Netanyahu agreed to lift a blockade of water supplies to parts of southern Gaza after speaking with U.S. President Joe Biden.
People asked not to travel on the Jammu-Srinagar highway due to a blockade of the road at several places.
Protesters blockade the Interstate 55 bridge during a protest over the death of Tyre Nichols, in Memphis, Tenn., Friday, Jan.
The decade-and-a-half long blockade has destroyed Gaza’s economy and left half the population in poverty.
Hiebert, who said he was pepper sprayed twice during the blockade in Ottawa, owns the 50-acre property.
Many Finns and Swedes expected, unrealistically, that solving the blockade was only a question of the U.S. deciding to make it so.
Common combinations with blockade
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the blockade 54×
- blockade of 41×
- blockade and 12×
- blockade on 12×
- blockade was 9×
- blockade in 8×
- blockade the 7×
- blockade at 6×
- and blockade 6×
- to blockade 6×
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