Similar words: blockade, blockaded, naval blockade, chock-a-block, building block, blockage, block and tackle, blocking. Meaning: [blɒ'keɪd] adj. blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors.
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1. They attempted to break the blockade by using submarines.
2. They've imposed an economic blockade on the country.
3. It was quite some time before they break through the enemy's blockade.
4. Striking lorry drivers agreed to lift their blockades of main roads.
5. The leadership discussed a plan of economic measures to counter the effects of such a blockade.
6. They blockaded the Suez Canal in violation of international agreement.
7. The Soviet blockade of Berlin was lifted in May 1949.
8. Employees blockaded the entrance to the offices.
9. They ran a blockade and got to the border.
10. The river blockaded the spread of the forest fire.
11. Angry farmers used tractors as blockades on the streets.
12. All the ports had been blockaded.
13. Traffic was held up for six hours by the motorway blockade.
14. The blockade was aimed at starving the country into submission.
15. Truck drivers have blockaded roads to show their anger over new driving regulations.
16. Protesters formed a human blockade to stop loggers felling trees.
17. The Army boys had personnel carriers blockading the cross streets.
18. The Estonian port of Tallinn was blockaded for a time by Soviet warships.
19. The harbour was blockaded, so the ships had to lay off.
20. The president imposed a complete blockade on the island's harbours.
21. Parisian taxi drivers are threatening to mount a blockade to turn the screw on the government.
22. The blockading ships prevented delivery of munitions.
23. Fishermen in France have been blockading ports and pouring oil on the roads in protest.
24. Chinese company was holding them to ransom : blockading the plant.
25. The government maintained pressure on the rebels by declaring an exclusion zone around Bougainville and blockading all supplies to the island.
26. By this time the Soviets had forced a crisis by blockading Berlin, and fears of war mounted.
27. The Lisbon Government tried to avoid bloodshed by starving out the rebels and blockading the island.
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28. He favored a policy of applying our naval and air strength toward the blockading of Germany.
29. America shipped load after load of scrap iron to Japan, while Britain considered blockading Burma Road.
30. After years of harassing British colonies, Blackbeard (Edward Teach) achieves career highlight: blockading city of Charleston, South Carolina, for one week.
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