How to Use bloc in a Sentence

bloc

noun

• Farmers have been protesting throughout the bloc for weeks.
  — Raf Casert, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Yaroslavsky has been part of a five-member bloc that routinely votes against new 41.18 locations.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• Christie campaigned heavily to win the votes of some of New Hampshire's undeclared voters, a key bloc in the state that makes up nearly 40% of the electorate.
  — Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2024
• Some of the major swing states themselves, especially India and Brazil, are seeking to lead this bloc.
  — Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2023
• On the Republican side, the votes for Haley are a sign that there is still a bloc of Republican voters who are not ready to vote for Trump.
  — Mansee Khurana, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
• The movie landed seven notable noms with the British voting bloc, including among the top five movies recognized for best film.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
• But as the bloc tries to enforce its rules on the unruly owner of X, critics say Brussels is becoming more like Elon Musk, rather than the other way around.
  — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
• The bloc has also deployed peacekeeping forces, mainly from Nigeria to war zones such as Sierra Leone and Liberia.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 6 Aug. 2023
• They were joined by a bloc of traditionalists who were alarmed at the steady pipeline of German philosophers seeking refuge in the United States from the Nazi regime.
  — TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
• Others say the bloc’s next leader must be a woman, or someone from an European Union nation, which Britain is not.
  — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• During each round, many analysts feared that expanding the bloc would dilute it.
  — Carl Bildt, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
• The alleged fraud is likely to renew concerns about the misuse of the EU’s €800-billion recovery fund to help revive the bloc’s economy.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
• The European Union’s parliament this week approved the bloc’s new carbon border tax.
  — Ed Ballard, wsj.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• The white majority votes as a bloc to defeat the Black voters’ preferred candidate.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 6 Sep. 2023
• Farmers form the most influential voting bloc in India and are often romanticized as the heart and soul of the nation.
  — Krutika Pathi, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2024
• In a much larger bloc, with more members and an even broader set of interests, what mechanisms will be available to deal with outliers?
  — Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• In fact the bloc was never culturally uniform, nor was it closed to outside influences.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• Overnight, and against the will of its leaders, the country abandoned its economic model—as the Anglo-Saxon gateway to the world’s largest trading bloc—and replaced it with nothing at all.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• But despite recent calls for term limits and age limits in leadership, Americans aged 65 and up form the biggest voting bloc in most states.
  — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2023
• Ask Biden which voting bloc rescued his presidential campaign in the 2020 primaries.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• Still, the Academy’s formidable singer-songwriter-friendly bloc could get behind Kahan, who has been rising quickly in the last few months and is high on the radar.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
• Cameron resigned after voters narrowly rejected his call to remain in the bloc.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 10 Apr. 2024
• After extended debate, E.U. nations have backed changes to the bloc’s migration rules that could get final approval as soon as early next year.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
• Arsenals across the bloc’s 27 members have been depleted after two years of weapons and ammunition transfers to Ukraine.
  — Monika Pronczuk, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024