Sentence examples for causing a blockage from inspiring English sources

"The bicycle was illegal, it was causing a blockage," the train manager announced to the multitude when the train finally moved off again.

"It might seem harmless when you're doing it, but that grease quickly solidifies when it cools and sticks to the sides of our sewers, forming a concrete-like solid that attracts other debris, eventually causing a blockage.

Could the passenger who has left a folding bicycle in carriage D please make themselves known as the bicycle is being removed from the train as it is causing a blockage!

Then, two years ago, lightning struck a third time: Scar tissue around the ICD wires was causing a blockage in her circulatory system, making her face swell and her veins protrude.

Linked to sedentary behavior, the condition — referred to as economy-class syndrome — can be fatal if the clot reaches the lungs, causing a blockage known as a pulmonary embolism.

Poor maintenance of the Trump system also caused debris such as boulders and branches to flow from the golf course into the village drains, it is alleged, causing a blockage so severe that a manhole in the village playing fields burst open and "became a geyser spewing water".

One was thrown into the toilet and caused a blockage.

Mr Dooley said: "A ball of food had lodged in [Mr Ore's] oesophagus and caused a blockage".

Suggested by bobbymac1956 and greendreamer During heavy floods, it was feared that the body of Lynda Snell's dog Scruff had caused a blockage following his apparent disappearance.

Coke formed during propane aromatization causes a blockage of the access to the protonic sites of the zeolite which is responsible for deactivation.

To avoid excretion, the pill must be too big to pass from the stomach into the gastrointestinal tract, but small enough so that it doesn't cause a blockage.