Sentence examples for dead block from inspiring English sources
noun
Either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car.
"They look like great people, but it's a dead block," said Pote Reyes, 45, the owner of Pote's Custom Cycles, another Bushwick shop nearby.
Opponents of the plan, who formed a neighborhood organization, the Chelsea Alliance, said the Con Ed substation would create a "dead block" in the middle of Chelsea, the revitalizing residential and commercial neighborhood in Manhattan.
Commenting upon a work by Michelangelo, Buber speaks of Gestalt as hidden in the raw material, waiting to emerge as the artist wrestles with the dead block.
"When I came, it was a dead block.
"If it wasn't for Taco Loco, this would be a dead block," he said.
BAGHDAD, Aug. 10 — Dead blocks, they call them, the most visible legacy of the latest war in a city with a long history of wars.
When daylight returns, many of those dead blocks come alive with visiting homeowners dragging their soggy belongings to the sidewalk, stopping sometimes to hug and to cry, then going back to work.
"This is something beautiful to do such work, bringing to life these dead blocks," said Tahar, 30, a graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad who is among those hired by the Ministry of Works and Social Affairs.
Experiment to raise the dead blocked in India.
A friend of the family, a wealthy tribal figure, had been shot dead a block away.
The tent was a delightful stunt, reanimating a dead city block.
