How to Use bloc in a Sentence

bloc

noun
  • The bloc has been split in its reaction to the arrest warrants.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The plan to deprive the Kremlin of a key source of revenue will have to be approved by the bloc's 27 member states.
    NBC News, 4 May 2022
  • The latest round of sanctions would mark one of the bloc’s most severe moves against Moscow.
    Robert Hart, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • Farmers have been protesting throughout the bloc for weeks.
    Raf Casert, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The pipeline accounts for more than a third of Russian gas exports to the trading bloc.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 21 July 2022
  • Should countries like Hungary be able to hold the rest of the bloc to ransom with its veto, and how can the EU reform that?
    Luke McGee, CNN, 31 May 2022
  • Members of that bloc might be reluctant to make any changes, since the rule is the very thing that empowers them.
    Carl Hulse, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The result reduced the leaders of the bloc’s biggest nations, Germany and France, to lame ducks.
    Max Hastings, Twin Cities, 12 June 2024
  • The bloc is already home to one of the world's most-active emissions-trading markets.
    Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The endorsement is set to be discussed by the bloc's leaders next week in Brussels.
    Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 17 June 2022
  • But Hillary got the biggest voting bloc from Black women—94% of black women voted for Hillary.
    Janell Ross, Time, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The bloc’s executive arm was set to come forward with a plan to deal with the shortages Tuesday.
    Raf Casertand and Samuel Petrequin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The impasse embarrassed the bloc, which was forced to scale down its ambitions in a bid to get Hungary on board.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2022
  • Latin America is not a unified trading bloc like the EU.
    Morten Johansen, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Abarca is part of a four-member bloc that supports putting the tax to a vote in April before all the key issues are addressed.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The Knesset has a total of a hundred and twenty seats; Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc holds sixty-four of them.
    Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 30 July 2023
  • Though the process stalled, Turkey has remained a key economic and defense partner for the bloc.
    Inci Ozbek, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Jurado and Burgos, if elected, could add two more votes to that bloc.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The idea of Latinos moving as a monolith or like a cohesive voting bloc is a myth.
    Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Don’t rock the boat too much for the industry or for seniors, a crucial voting bloc in this week’s midterm elections.
    Bob Herman Reprints, STAT, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Norway now supplies 30% of the bloc’s gas; Gazprom provided about 35% of all Europe’s gas before the war.
    Priscila Azevedo Rocha, Fortune Europe, 13 May 2024
  • Inflation in Hungary is among the highest in the EU at over 25%, well more than double the bloc’s average of just over 10%.
    Justin Spike, ajc, 18 Feb. 2023
  • But there are reasons to believe that Democrats may do even worse this year among the key voting bloc, long a pillar of the party’s coalition.
    Steve Peoples, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • But there are reasons to believe that Democrats may do even worse this year among the key voting bloc, long a pillar of the party's coalition.
    Steve Peoples, ajc, 7 Nov. 2022
  • That bloc’s opposition has meant the House needs Democratic votes for a CR.
    Richard McGahey, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Black voters Black voters have long been a loyal voting bloc for Democrats.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Now the 27-member bloc is waking up to a harsh reality.
    Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • The bloc’s return to modest growth coincides with a first-quarter pickup in China and a slowdown in the U.S.
    Paul Hannon, wsj.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • In addition to levies on agricultural and clothing imports, the EU is also looking to impose a tax on American whiskey products in response to Trump’s 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum from the bloc of nations.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The European Union, for its part, has recently opened up the possibility of creating ‘return hubs’ outside the bloc, where people will be deported and likely detained.
    Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'bloc.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: