How to Use blocky in a Sentence

blocky

adjective

• His face was strong and blocky, his white hair thick and rough.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2021
• The black heels came in satin with an open toe and blocky platform base.
  — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• The blocky dash has knobs and buttons that are easy to spot but can be hard to reach.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 3 Aug. 2017
• The blocky machine stood about chest-high, on four wheels, not quite as long as a golf cart.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2020
• Grateful for bales of hay, both blocky like Legos and round like sushi.
  — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2020
• Beyond the site rise the blocky tops of many-coloured containers, the odd crane.
  — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
• These shrikes are smaller than robins but have large, blocky heads, hence the name loggerhead.
  — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 1 Oct. 2025
• Sexistential ’s many catchy melodies bounce atop bright, blocky synth lines.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
• The shooter has that blur and blocky quality except for his face.
  — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2026
• Imagine finding blocky pigs and cows on a farm, in your backyard or in your bedroom.
  — Harold Goldberg, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
• That goes for blocky trucks, too, if this sweet-looking build is any indication.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2019
• The acres of raw, blocky basalt look as fresh as the flows shown spilling from Kilauea on the nightly news.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 June 2018
• The glossy, textured boots featured a tall, sculptural heel and a blocky platform base.
  — Kelsey Stewart, Footwear News, 21 Nov. 2025
• Gideon thrashed around and knocked his blocky head into the wall, the metal choker still clinging to his neck.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• The old Maxus was blocky and kind of hard to get a comfortable grip on for those with smaller hands.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 23 Feb. 2021
• Meta is not alone in the blocky simplicity of its VR avatars.
  — Rachel Metz, CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
• Anyone can generate an image with blocky text at the top and bottom.
  — Verge Staff, The Verge, 27 Dec. 2018
• The short, blocky feet in an espresso wood stain coordinate with any fabric choice.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2022
• To me, Minecraft is the most human of all games, despite its blocky aesthetic.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2019
• Through two home games, Lambeau has missed blocky cheese heads and Lambeau Leaps.
  — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2020
• The game has long had blocky, iconic but relatively unattractive avatars, but that’s about to change.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• Kaufman’s goofy, upbeat persona is a smart fit for Brown’s simple, blocky style.
  — Pat Rapa, Philly.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• For many, that’s meant brushing off dusty home gym equipment or streaming blocky feeds of trainers in their living rooms.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2020
• Len says Argentine tango is supposed to be fluid and this was too stiff and blocky.
  — Amy Watts, baltimoresun.com, 9 May 2017
• The highlights are thick and blocky, serving early 2000s vibes for sure.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2020
• In one senior-yearbook photo, he is posed atop a boulder, legs out to the side, his long arms holding up his blocky frame.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
• Speaker stacks stood, black and blocky, near a crackling bonfire and a pack of wandering horses.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 June 2018
• Blocky volumes are discrete objects that hover and bulge away from the Euclidean grid.
  — Alastair Gordon, miamiherald, 12 May 2017
• So when the signs go up, the blocky vehicles sometimes move just a few streets away, spurring complaints from a new set of neighbors.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• The town — white, blocky houses under uniform ocher roofs — was like a handful of gravel thrown onto the shore.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022