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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a concrete block" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a solid, heavy building material typically made from cement and aggregates.
Example: "The construction workers used a concrete block to build the foundation of the new house."
Alternatives: "a cement block" or "a masonry block".
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He also dropped a concrete block on it, threw it off a roof, and doused it with lighter fluid and ignited it.
A concrete block was added on top in the 1960s.
Place a couple of bricks or a concrete block at either end of the rack.
Athena was lowered into a narrow grave at the edge, next to a concrete block wall.
She had been battered with a rock and a concrete block, suffering 50 wounds.
Outside the restaurant, which is named 42nd Street Pizza Corporation, is an American flag planted in a concrete block.
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"IQBAL WAS HERE" was spray-painted on a concrete-block wall.
It had no cellar, only a concrete-block foundation — an emptiness that gradually filled with debris.
He also set up a concrete-block business, producing a daily profit of $80.
Barbed wire and a concrete-block wall that had kept the street closed since November were torn down.
The locus of these important efforts, it turns out, is a concrete-block outbuilding, half-bunkered into a hillock.
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