Sentence examples for blocking from inspiring English sources

The word 'blocking' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe the action of preventing something from happening, or to refer to an obstructing physical object. For example, "Our team put a blocking strategy in place to prevent any further investments in that sector."

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blocking

verb

Present participle of block

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He, determined to help wash dishes with an oblivious mama not acknowledging his signs for 'up!', found me and a lazy dog blocking his way.

In December 2014, the company rolled out improvements to its blocking function, and began letting users report abuse directed at others, as well as themselves.

Even as the presenter delivers her introduction you can see four-wheel vehicles blocking the blue.

At some point during the evening, the New York police department deployed pepper spray on the crowd to keep protesters from blocking the Lincoln tunnel and Triborough bridge.

Pearce said he was of the view the dispute between AWH and Sydney Water, who were seen by AWH to be blocking a public-private partnership, was a commercial one and he did not want to be involved.

"What you don't want to do is build up a mountain of supplies", blocking space for planes or more supplies, Kennedy said.

"For example, blocking the footpath, causing patients to feel fearful to proceed, acting in a hostile manner.

In Palin's original post, she wrote that Trig had "made his stepping stone" when he encountered the "stumbling blocks" of an oblivious mother and a "lazy dog blocking his way".

Environment group the Natural Resources Defense Council says blocking the project will prevent as much as 24.3m tonnes of CO2-equivalent being released every year.

He pointed to sites and organisations that block "deep links" directly to pages within a site, bypassing its front page, and governments which are blocking other indexing, and said that they are effectively claiming that the right to be forgotten, or not, "is inherently theirs".

Google has come under fire for its "clumsy" approach to obeying Europe's new "right to be forgotten" law, after it began blocking some name-based searches to articles on the websites of UK news organisations.

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