block party

noun

: an outdoor public party put on by the residents of a city block or neighborhood

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web In the 1970s, block parties became a staple for several communities throughout the city, and DJs started making popular dance breaks in music tracks through a dual turntable system and mixer in order to keep parties going. —

Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 24 Feb. 2023 All the time, from the block parties to the jams, people would have different conflicts. —

Insanul Ahmed, Men's Health, 22 Feb. 2023 But Morgan’s block party quickly turned into a wake, as Florida Gulf Coast buried USC during its second-half drought. —

Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022 The shooting happened about 7 p.m. Monday during the annual Halloween block party in the Minne Lusa neighborhood, and no one besides the driver was injured. —

From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022 The block party kicked off in Detroit's east-side Islandview neighborhood. —

Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2022 Roberts says the block party was the culminating event of a yearlong celebration of Wilmette’s 150th birthday, and that numbers throughout the day, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., were expected to reach over 10,000 — at a rate of approximately 1000 people an hour. —

Gina Grillo, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022 The block party was initially set to take over the stretch of Vine Street known as Short Vine for home UC football games. —

Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2022 The block party felt like a throwback to a New York of a different era, when Deitch Projects and other galleries tapped into a frenzied downtown art scene and held carnivalesque openings that spilled onto the sidewalk and blurred the lines of art, music, fashion and nightlife. —

John Ortved, New York Times, 20 July 2022 See More

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