How to Use blockade in a Sentence

blockade

1 of 2 verb

• They blockaded the country's ports.
• The ship was also part of a British fleet used to blockade Newport Harbor from the French in 1778.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2019
• Israel and Egypt have blockaded Gaza by air, land and sea since the takeover.
  — Fares Akram, The Seattle Times, 12 Dec. 2018
• The plan, Bearkats coach Jason Hooten said, was to blockade the paint and dare Carr to hoist from deep.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Dec. 2021
• But ever since Hamas came to power, in 2007, the Strip has been blockaded.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• The northerners were able to blockade many goods from arriving in the South, and one of them was coffee and tea.
  — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2021
• The move was like blockading an entire port to stop one ship from entering.
  — Jacob Silverman, Longreads, 3 July 2018
• Truck drivers planned to blockade roads and tollbooths.
  — Heather Connolly, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2019
• The six young men had never left Gaza, which has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt since 2007.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• So a sit-in protest blockading the lobby and walkways could shut it down very quickly.
  — C.r., The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
• The images emerged just hours after Putin ordered his troops to blockade rather than storm the last Ukrainian stronghold in the city.
  — NBC News, 22 Apr. 2022
• But Putin ordered to blockade it instead of storming it.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2022
• The militant group Attac planned to blockade streets and bring traffic to a standstill on Saturday, the day the show opens to the public.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Gaza is now under control of Hamas and is blockaded by Egypt and Israel.
  — Shira Pinson, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2023
• Protesters have blockaded roads to the site, and several lawsuits against the TMT are still in process.
  — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 11 May 2018
• But Maduro said the shipments were part of a coup attempt against him, and armed forces blockaded the assistance.
  — Christopher Torchia, The Seattle Times, 29 Mar. 2019
• The Gaza Strip is ruled by Hamas militants and blockaded by Israel.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• The campaign to shut down the plant, so far, has included blockading a train bringing coal to the plant, resulting in arrests.
  — Lexi McMenamin, The New Republic, 5 Feb. 2020
• Two days earlier, Putin had given an order not to send troops in but instead to blockade the plant.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2022
• The activists plan to blockade the distribution centers for at least 24 hours, but will try to stay for 48, said Lockwood.
  — Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 22 May 2021
• During the 2016 wildfire, sheriffs blockaded the burn zone and stopped hilltop farmers from going back to their plots, due to the risk.
  — Josh Marcus, Outside Online, 3 Oct. 2019
• The Russians also are expected to try to blockade Chernihiv.
  — Nebi Qena and Yuras Karmanau, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2022
• Moscow continues to blockade Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, preventing the export of millions of tons of grain to countries around the world.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 11 June 2022
• Both Israel and Egypt began to blockade Gaza after Hamas seized control.
  — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 17 May 2018
• The sentence triggered days of protests in which masked demonstrators first blockaded Barcelona airport and then set dozens of fires and barricades in the centre of the city.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
• Booths that blockaded and segregated the restaurant or walled off any flow to the patio also are out.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 23 Jan. 2020
• Putin told troops on Thursday morning to blockade the plant, saying a breach wasn’t necessary.
  — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2022
• Efforts to blockade the expansion of Asian carp in the Midwest having been ongoing for years, and while some battles may have been won, the war has not.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 25 Oct. 2023
• The ship's main mission was to blockade the coastline to keep North Korea from transporting troops and other supplies by sea.
  — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Only a drug that targets the right road can stop the disease, just as blockading only the roads taken by an invading army can stop it from laying siege to a city.
  — STAT, 1 July 2019

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blockade

2 of 2 noun

• One of the blockades was close to the Dutch border on the E19 highway, media said.
  — Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024
• And Rydberg blockades don’t have to be between lone atoms.
  — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
• These are two of three blockades built by South Korea to prevent the north from using it.
  — Mark E. Potts, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• The enclave had already been subject to blockade by Israel and Egypt since 2007.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• Around a police block blockade going about 50 miles an hour.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 21 July 2023
• Her husband, John, had finally been able to make it through all the police blockades.
  — Kevin Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
• At times, the blockade had strained relations with Poland, one of Ukraine’s strongest wartime backers.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• In the last three weeks since Cavanaugh began her bill blockade, only three bills have advanced.
  — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023
• In the ensuing six months, his blockade has caught up more than 300 nominees.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 20 Sep. 2023
• The blockade was to prevent bringing in deadly weapons to attack Israel.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
• The first involved building a fleet of fast blockade runners that could get past the Union ships and smuggle necessary weapons into the South.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2023
• When Russia sought the pressure the country with a blockade, the E.U. offered support to Kyiv by opening its market.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
• Most of those born since 2007, when Hamas seized power, have never left Gaza because of an Israeli blockade imposed the same year.
  — Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• There are signs that the French measures are working – some blockades have been lifted after two major unions called for an end to the roadblocks.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
• The couple moved to the seaside strip with their young son and built a comfortable life despite the hardships of a long-running Israeli blockade.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• Governed by Hamas, the territory is largely cut off from the rest of the world by an Israeli blockade of Gaza’s land, air and sea dating back to 2007.
  — Elliott Gotkine, CNN, 12 May 2023
• Gaza has been under a complete blockade from Israel and Egypt, which have both controlled the flow of people and goods to and from the territory since 2007.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2023
• Some unions that joined the blockade are expanding their actions in an effort to be more effective.
  — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
• The senator has also put the blame on the Pentagon, saying that the blockade could be ended swiftly by putting the policy to a vote.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 4 Aug. 2023
• That blockade was followed by a string of votes, forced by House Freedom Caucus members, on red-meat issues to satiate the base.
  — Marianna Sotomayor and Leigh Ann Caldwell, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
• Across the Gaza Strip, the severe shortages of food and other basic goods come amid Israeli’s bombardment and a near-total blockade.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
• Tehran is trying to impose a de facto economic blockade on Israel, and the Houthis are the centerpiece.
  — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2024
• The blockade, which Israel says is needed to prevent Hamas from arming, severely limits the movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza.
  — Issam Adwan and Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2023
• In practice, that may mean fully imposing a Russian naval blockade on Ukraine’s ports.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2023
• On the public agenda was finalizing an agreement to end Riyadh’s blockade against Qatar.
  — Michael Kranish, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2023
• The claim of a further advance in the east came as there were signs that Ukraine may be able to open an alternative route for grain shipments in the face of Russia’s de facto blockade of its ports.
  — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• The trial for another group of defendants facing charges from the same blockade is scheduled to begin at a later date.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• But at some point, Taiwan could face a real Chinese blockade, not just a simulated one.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, wsj.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• Should Russia resort to a submarine blockade, Ukraine has few good options.
  — Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2023
• Protesters set up a blockade on the road to Burning Man on Sunday to demand the Nevada festival ban the use of private jets and single-use plastics.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024