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Discover LudwigThe phrase "along the block" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe movement or location in relation to a street or area, typically indicating a direction or distance.
Example: "We walked along the block, admiring the various shops and cafes."
Alternatives: "down the street" or "across the block".
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Metal police barricades were suddenly and noisily shoved down all along the block.
Months passed, and other businesses along the block began to close.
At almost any hour, a police car is flashing its blue lights somewhere along the block.
Glass shattered along the block and a hunk of blackened metal careered into his yard.
The plan could be beneficial to businesses along the block as well, he said.
All along the block stand large bins, like oversize trash cans, with the word "inedible" stenciled on their sides.
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O, for a muse of fire / To describe the windows of Poets House, / Which ascend two stories in the entirely glassed-in lobby / And sweep all along the block-long side of Poets House, / The side facing Nelson Rockefeller Park / And the Hudson River (Anonymous).
About 3 p.m., several hundred people began to slowly march along the blocks around the park.
You are to plant the trees along the blocks as shown by the dotted lines on the map below.
Others can be found along the blocks of row houses spray-painted "R.I.P.," empty liquor bottles clustered on their porches in memorial to murder victims.
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