Sentence examples for blocks of burning from inspiring English sources

By then, Cleveland had become the scene of riots, of blocks of burning buildings.

Streets are blocked by barricades of burning trash, debris, and barbed wire; teen-age protesters strut around with Molotov cocktails and slingshots, and have the support of many older residents.

Tree-trunks, blocks of concrete, burning tyres and smouldering rubbish brought traffic to a halt.

The police declared a curfew in some areas after protesters blocked major highways using barricades of burning tires.

Residents, who had evidently planned their revenge, blocked off roads with barricades of burning tires to delay police officers and television crews.

Hundreds of people, mostly Aristide partisans, many armed with machetes and guns, poured into the streets near the palace in the hours after the assault, setting up barricades of burning tires to block intersections.

Citing the account of an unnamed activist in the Syrian city of Hama, The Associated Press reports that protesters "hurled stones and set roadblocks of burning tires" to block government forces as they tried to regain control of the opposition stronghold on Thursday.

The hospital's open windows were covered by sheets to block out the sun and the smell of burning trash.

Last July Mr Wright led LVF inmates in an orgy of burning and destruction through their cell block to protest against searches of prison cells.

Drummond's light, which consisted of a block of calcium oxide heated to incandescence in jets of burning oxygen and hydrogen, provided a soft, very brilliant light that could be directed and focused.

But the smell of burning plastic continued to waft along the busy 300 block of Pennsylvania Ave . SE more than four hours after the fire had been extinguished.