Sentence examples for was blockaded for from inspiring English sources

The Zim Shanghai's sister ship, the Zim Piraeus, was blockaded for four days and prevented from unloading at the same port in Oakland.

Leningrad suffered terribly during the war it was blockaded for more than two years by the Germans, deprived of food and heat.

Leningrad suffered terribly during the war — it was blockaded for more than two years by the Germans, deprived of food and heat.

The Ukrainian air base in Evpatoria was blockaded for three weeks before the Russian flag was raised over the base on Friday.

In 1991, it was blockaded for six weeks.

In 1780, the garrison was blockaded for several days by a large force of Indians led by Joseph Brant.

As they met, hundreds of civilians fled rebel-held areas near Damascus that had been blockaded for over a year.

In Syria, hundreds of civilians fled from rebel-held towns east of Damascus that had been blockaded for at least 18 months.

The villages have been blockaded for months, but what makes Zahra important are the oil and gas pipes, as well as the electricity lines that go through it – the rebels had been blowing them up.

On Sunday, government officials in the northeastern province of Diyala announced that they would remove all the walls ringing residential neighborhoods and public markets, and reopen roads that had been blockaded for three years.

The persistence — and fragility — of such attempts was underscored again on Tuesday as hundreds more civilians left the Damascus suburb of Moadhamiya, which has been blockaded for months by the government.