en bloc
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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“They were just informing me as to what they were going to do, as members do all the time. That they did it en bloc made it very, very important.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2019
“In a piecemeal way we’ve been doing that for years, but now we can take it en bloc and I don’t mind telling you we’re rather excited.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2015
The en bloc type, they can last hours.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2015
"There is a risk that people end up feeling that religious groups, en bloc, are against same-sex couples completely," he added.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2012
Often have we seen a mining congregation captured en bloc when some brother miner, speaking in native doric from the wagon at a camp meeting, has taken them "doon the pit," or "in bye."
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by J. Dodd (James Dodd) Jackson
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