Sentence examples for block stands from inspiring English sources

Today, the block stands as a reminder of immigrant generations through its history.

A tall, neglected social housing block stands decrepit here in the northernmost point of the Gaza Strip.

Within a large group of works from a private collection, Jack Levine's monumental "On the Block" stands out as a kind of roman à clef of the nineteen-eighties New York auction scene — a busy, crowded canvas that contains a Who's Who of art-world types, recognizable portraits of such legendary figures as Leo Castelli, Andy Warhol, and the downtown gallerist Edith Halpert.

ACROSS EASTERN PARKWAY, Richard Meier and Partners' polarizing condominium, completed in 2009, is the newest building in sight; next to the glass-walled block stands the Union Temple of Brooklyn, built in 1925 for a Reform community that migrated from Williamsburg to Flatbush.

If your block stands up vertically on an orange tile, the tile will give way and your block will fall through.

This lay east of the settlement, alongside the platform on which the granary block stood.

Down at the end of the block stood a few young African-American men.

ON this block stood the tiny St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was crushed under the collapsing south tower.

All along the block stand large bins, like oversize trash cans, with the word "inedible" stenciled on their sides.

When Roger Nielson started packing his belongings into his car on Tuesday, he said, people on his block stood in their yards and laughed at him.

He could hardly see inside, where the hollowed-out hogs and cattle hung in rows, to the little room in the front corner, where the butcher's block stood.