Sentence examples for chunk of a block from inspiring English sources

The jungle gym itself sprawls over a chunk of a block, with the younger and the older children's play areas connected by a three-rung ladder toddlers couldn't climb.

And developers are eyeing the prime sites that remain -- from a big chunk of a block of Lake Shore Drive to a low-rise street of boutiques along North Rush Street to a long swath of Michigan Avenue, the city's most picturesque vista, where three 50-story towers have been proposed for one vacant lot.

The flashy statement pieces of 2009 (for example, Tavares Strachan's chunk of a New Haven city block, at Feldman) have given way to the venerable blue-chip painting of Art Shows past.

And if you want something even more solid to grip, Origins offers Chunk of Clay ($12.50), a block of green eucalyptus-scented soap that foams practically at the touch.

Unable to tell the difference between a chunk of mattress and a block of steel on the carriageway, a self-driving vehicle might brake harder than would be wise, says Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford University roboticist who led the development of Google's driverless cars.

Though the shop itself -- with its white-fringed blue awnings -- is rather small, Nasto's takes up a sizeable chunk of the block.

But the life there is stubbornly bohemian, and some residents say they are not ready to give up a classic chunk of the block.

The chef cut a chunk of butter from a block, dropped it into a broad-bottomed pot and put the pot on a flat-top burner set to low.

But in the indelible tragedies that came before, school officials and parents were often so haunted by the violence that they sought to dismantle whole sections of buildings, ripping out blood-soaked floors and every last chunk of cinder block from the rooms where the killings took place.

At least one day each weekend, we'd have a chunk of time blocked off for the necessary family time.

Hope someone with more time, a better legal education, or a weird fetish for huge chunks of block capitals, does it instead.