Explore Blockaded through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like barricaded or barred. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Blockaded meaning
simple past and past participle of blockade
Synonyms of Blockaded
Using Blockaded
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of blockade
- Useful related words include: barricaded, barred, obstructed.
- In the example corpus, blockaded often appears in combinations such as: the blockaded, blockaded the, blockaded by.
Context around Blockaded
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Blockaded
- In this selection, "blockaded" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gaza, christmastime, enclave, gaza, enclave and strip stand out and add context to how "blockaded" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include by christmastime blockaded and strangled and civilians in blockaded and besieged. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "blockaded" sits close to words such as aarp, accretion and aerosols, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with blockaded
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Houtis have effectively blockaded Israel. (6 words)
Ukraine Hatches Plan to Reopen Blockaded Black Sea Grain Routewsj. (10 words)
Israel responded by imposing a full siege on the already blockaded enclave. (12 words)
Hamas, which runs the blockaded Gaza Strip but which also has fighters in the West Bank, said Kharusha was a member and that he carried out the Huwara double killing, the latest in a series of deadly attacks on Israelis by Palestinians this year. (44 words)
Alarm has grown over the fate of Palestinian civilians in blockaded and besieged Gaza – one of the world’s most densely populated areas, home to 2.4 million people – if it becomes the scene of intense urban combat and house-to-house fighting. (43 words)
On Monday, Israel’s defense minister imposed what he called a “complete siege” of Gaza, saying this would prevent electricity, food, water and fuel from entering the territory that has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt for the past 16 years. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
AFP correspondents witnessed dozens of air strikes over 30 minutes on Thursday morning in the direction of Al-Shati camp and in the blockaded strip's north.
Alarm has grown over the fate of Palestinian civilians in blockaded and besieged Gaza – one of the world’s most densely populated areas, home to 2.4 million people – if it becomes the scene of intense urban combat and house-to-house fighting.
Artsakh said they allowed the delivery only as a precondition for the complete re-opening of the Lachin Corridor, which has been blockaded by Azerbaijan since December 12.
At least 560 Palestinians have been killed and 2,900 wounded in Israeli air strikes on the blockaded enclave since Saturday, said Gaza’s Health Ministry.
But the people who have been living in Gaza, blockaded, besieged, decimated economically and politically, have nothing to lose.
By Christmastime, blockaded and strangled, the Japanese would have been starving to death by the millions, though the army, which had stockpiled food, would starve last.
For Vardanyan, confined to the blockaded region he moved to just months ago, the outside world feels a very long way away, and he warns the Karabakh-Armenians can’t expect to depend on anyone but themselves.
Hamas, which runs the blockaded Gaza Strip but which also has fighters in the West Bank, said Kharusha was a member and that he carried out the Huwara double killing, the latest in a series of deadly attacks on Israelis by Palestinians this year.
Here in D.C., for instance, the banks are going to be blockaded with people in rocking chairs, Amy.
Israel responded by imposing a full siege on the already blockaded enclave.
Lilly has made headlines in the past for the vaccine mandate and with the truckers who blockaded traffic in Canada to protest against vaccine requirements.
Netizens and other observers have dubbed Gaza Strip the world’s biggest “open-air prison” for being blockaded by the Israeli military for decades on end from land, sea, and air.
On Monday, Israel’s defense minister imposed what he called a “complete siege” of Gaza, saying this would prevent electricity, food, water and fuel from entering the territory that has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt for the past 16 years.
Such jobs have become a vital means of income for Palestinians living in the coastal enclave blockaded by Israel since 2007, crippling Gaza's economy and cutting off most of its residents from the outside world.
The aim is to avoid further civilian casualties and to ensure that more humanitarian aid reaches the population in the blockaded Gaza Strip.
The demonstration is one of four across the UK on Thursday morning, with campaigners saying more than 1,000 workers and trade unionists have blockaded four arms factories in England and Scotland.
The Houtis have effectively blockaded Israel.
The state has remained largely blockaded for two years by the junta, which controls the main access points; there has been no consistent aid reaching the population.
Ukraine Hatches Plan to Reopen Blockaded Black Sea Grain Routewsj.
Israeli naval forces on Tuesday detained two Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the blockaded Gaza Strip, according to a local official.
Common combinations with blockaded
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the blockaded 15×
- blockaded the 13×
- blockaded by 7×
- blockaded enclave 5×
- blockaded gaza 4×
- blockaded and 3×
- been blockaded 3×
- were blockaded 3×
- be blockaded 2×
- blockaded traffic 2×