verb phrase
: A ''long block'' is a complete engine minus the oil pump and oil pan (1990s+ Car mechanics)
At the end of a long block she sat down on a doorstep, and huddled up in one corner out of the wind.
It formed one, I knew, of a long block of buildings extending from one street to another, and was near the centre.
This long block probably formed part of the lowest course of the facing of the shelf.
The sentry marched up and down the long block with the dragging slowness of a weary man.
Here the walls were dull blue and in the exact center was a long block of quartz.
On one side of the green was a long block of stores, and on the opposite side a row of churches, side by side, five in number.
He was still half way down the long block, and only an eye that knew him well could have identified him.
