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How to use the word blocks in a Sentence?

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Most people live in apartment blocks on top of each other. We don’t have individuals with houses and gardens where you can go out and dig a hole and try to bury a body, you’re never really alone; your neighbors are above you, below you, next to you. Anything out of the ordinary will catch someone’s attention.

Philip Beh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These attacks against members of our Jewish community in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood are absolutely unacceptable, at a time of increased anti-Semitism, these acts have understandably set communities on edge. Just last December, I stood blocks away from where these incidents occurred as we celebrated the first night of Hanukkah together.

Karen Bass

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I still see falling blocks in my dreams.

Taron Egerton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I completely broke. I’m not equipped or trained to deal with a long-term citywide problem like this. I know it’s very hard to watch. I can only ask others to maybe try to better understand my breaking point by looking at sudden reactions they might have had in their own life and how they may have strongly overreacted and now feel so humbled and sorry. the city needs to take action and do something to give these people support and help that they need, not move them a few blocks away.

Trena Hamidi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The city needs to take action and do something to give these people support and help that they need, not move them a few blocks away, that’s not the solution.

Trena Hamidi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s impossible not to think about our past and our path. We’re blocks away from the Annapolis docks, where so many enslaved people arrived in this country against their will, and we are standing in front of a capitol that was built by their hands. We have made uneven and unimaginable progress since then.

Wes Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You’re going to have some arguments, you’re going to have some tough times, but it’s also what builds the journey. When I think about my relationship with my wife, (the tough times) allowed us to have memories and building blocks that we can look at and say, ‘If we were able to do that and figure that out, I think we could do it the next time we have some obstacles too.’.

George James

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now there will be those both in our state and across the country who will point to our victory tonight and try to use it to argue there is no voter suppression in Georgia, let me be clear. The fact that millions of Georgians endured hours in lines – and were willing to spend hours in line – lines that wrapped around buildings and went on for blocks, lines in the cold, lines in the rain, is most certainly not a sign voter suppression does not exist.

Raphael Warnock

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

These data provide only a small glimpse into the national health crisis created when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and illustrate the devastating impact abortion bans have on people’s ability to access care, banning or restricting abortion doesn’t reduce people’s need for abortion care; it only blocks people’s ability to access it.

Alexis McGill Johnson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

What Hillary Clinton and Democrats did was so illegal, at a level that you've rarely seen before, now, in all fairness, it looks to me like this is just the early building blocks.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At some point, the sergeant became engaged with the vehicle, the driver hit the gas and accelerated, dragging the sergeant what we think is about two blocks and striking another car along the way.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The success the industry has seen so far this year is great news for theaters that have spent the past two years methodically and patiently creating building blocks of normalcy, all of it was to get to something approaching a normal summer movie marketplace at the multiplex, and we may be finally getting there.

Paul Dergarabedian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

' There are wanted posters all over your neighborhood for The Other Wes Moore, for the murder of a police officer,' judy Woodruff were haunted by the fact that a guy with Judy Woodruff name, grew up in the same neighborhood, a couple of blocks away, a lot of similarities, but Judy Woodruff end up working in the White House, and he ends up in jail.

The Other Wes Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At the time, we said we will ban the import of Russian oil, liquefied natural gas and coal to the United States – a significant action with widespread bipartisan support, our ban blocks any new purchases of Russian energy and winds down deliveries of existing purchases as is standard practice because they have already been paid for.

Saloni Sharma

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The city is in ruin. Many buildings like hospitals and fire stations and university campuses and private houses are destroyed. [Blocks] of flats were burnt because shells fell there. Many buildings do not have windows. The city is on fire, people live in hell now in Mariupol. There are shelling and bombing of the city — civilian areas.

Vira Protskych

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The city is in a very, very difficult state of siege, relentless shelling of residential blocks is ongoing, airplanes have been dropping bombs on residential areas. The Russian occupants are using heavy artillery, including Grad multiple rocket launchers.

Vadym Boychenko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Russian tanks, equipped with thermal imagery, are shooting at the atomic blocks. They know what they are shooting at. They've been preparing for this( attack).

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The biggest nuclear power plant in Europe is on fire right now, russian tanks are shooting at the nuclear blocks. These are tanks equipped with thermal imagers, so they know what they are shooting at.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's about the flag and about freedom and about faith and families, we're planting a flag right where it should be which is right in the middle of the American consciousness, not anywhere far-right at all. ‘America First’ is simple in its building blocks and CPAC does a great job of bringing those people together.

Pete Hegseth

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Certainly a pretty intense moment they're racing for the win of the Daytona 500, it's the one that everybody wants to win, it’s one that everybody wants to win, and Bubba Wallace has been able to put Bubba Wallace into position a lot of years in a row now. Just try to position Austin Cindric to where I can be close enough to still make those blocks and still make those moves to be at the lead at the start-finish line.

Austin Cindric

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The same amount of people need access to safe abortion as they did before SB8, sB8 just blocks highly trained medical professionals like us from being able to provide that care.

Amy Hagstrom Miller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

From the very beginning, boys and girls are different in the way they swim. This is n’t chess, we’ve had some pretty fast girls as Olympians, but the boys will always beat them off the blocks.

Champion Women

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It would be definitely beneficial, i know for myself personal friends haven't left at least four blocks going east, west, north and south. Some never seen downtown. And when I see some of their reactions, when I expose them to some of the things that I've done already – and it's not like nothing major to me – but when I see their expression, it gives me a happy feeling inside.

Devin Howard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I do think it's hard for the boys, it's always harder for them to embrace the more feminine clothes, the more feminine toys, as opposed to the girl who's playing with the blocks that nobody really thinks twice about.

Lauren Apfel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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