Example Sentences
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Blockades and strategic bombing of German oil refineries left the Wehrmacht with fuel shortages by 1945 and without key inputs to build munitions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Blockades are also taking place at several border crossings with Ukraine.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024
Blockades also severed more than a dozen other highways, Vinci said.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024
Blockades of roads, the rail line and other Cerrejon facilities are common and regularly result in losses for the company.
From Reuters • Apr. 8, 2023
Blockades of snow twice stopped our train and shovel ploughs had to be used.
From Sixty Years of California Song by Alverson, Margaret Blake
