Example Sentences

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Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said Sunday that he had brokered a tentative deal with Lich to move the trucks that have been blockading residential streets to the main road in front of Parliament.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2022

For months now protesters have been blockading the fleets of private buses that Google and other technology giants use to ferry their employees to and from Silicon Valley 40 miles to the south.

From Economist • Feb. 20, 2014