Similar words: pulley block, security blanket, city boy, chockablock, chock-a-block, city-bred, block, blocky. Meaning: n. a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings.
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1. He blew up five city blocks, of course.
2. The prison that once sprawled over a full city block has been demolished to make way for the 20-story Hanoi Tower.
3. Libby Prison encompassed an entire city block in Richmond.
4. At the distance of a short city block stood the train station perched in darkness on the edge of the ravine, while below the tracks were illuminated in the amber glow of vapor lamps.
5. The banks and burritos and baristas on one city block arereplicated on the next — and in all the malls, in all the cities, inall the states.
6. But a city block, or rather a map of a city block, like this would seem more comfortable to the eye. Our brains can process the information much quicker.
7. We lined a city block with six big carrots, then covered the town with antenna skewers for a local farmers' market.
8. On a vacant city block behind the SWFC (1, 614 feet), construction has begun on a rival Chinese-financed skyscraper.
9. Focusing the narrative on a single city block, the site delivers all content through branded videos and navigation that draws attention without interrupting the storytelling experience.
10. Ernest Oppenheimer Park occupies half a city block, one block from the Provincial Government Building and the Library Gardens BRT station on Market Street.
11. The 160-year-old complex fills about a city block in the center of a popular business and entertainment district.
12. The given volume of the city block was divided into 30 small blocks of apartments.
13. Organizers who were fretting about millions of unsold tickets are contending with lines of hopeful spectators stretching five city blocks.
14. Building there, he said, would encourage redevelopment of aging city blocks and revitalize the area.
15. A study at Purdue University found one supercolony that spanned an entire city block.
16. Some island nations have total populations roughly equivalent in size to that of a single city block in Tokyo.
17. I envision buildings perhaps 30 stories high covering an entire city block.
18. Usually the GPS is accurate to within half of a city block, or even better.
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19. If a machine's hostname is the equivalent of a city block, the port number is an individual street address.
20. Three government workers labored to fill a dump truck with freshly cut trees over the holiday weekend — clearing just a portion of a single city block would be an all-day affair.
21. Inside, a glittering and stinking confusion of shops, food stalls and dormitories is piled on itself in an impossible jumble—17 storeys high and covering most of a city block.
22. She looks at you as the cab goes a whole city block, not saying a word.
23. It's from the mayor. You're a loose cannon. You destroyed a city block! He fired first.
24. You have a nice grid pattern and you can use a city block metric to add up the number of blocks between people's doors.
25. Lined with about a dozen 18th century homes, Little Green Street only stretches a city block in length, but has survived the Blitz in World War II and three centuries of construction.
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