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blockading

[ UK /blɒkˈe‍ɪdɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˌbɫɑˈkeɪdɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors
    the blockading ships prevented delivery of munitions

How To Use blockading In A Sentence

  • Litigator London: are you asserting a blockading power can only stop a vessel in territorial waters; and that vessel being stopped has to be flagged by the blockaded entity? The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident
  • Thirty people were arrested for blockading the street outside the convention by locking themselves together around organic plants and symbols of an environmentally sustainable future.
  • Gangs of youths marauded through the streets, the Kyrgyz agency AKIpress reported, blockading the centre of town with barricades. Kyrgyzstan erupts into ethnic war
  • The Federal ships blockading the port closed as near as they dared and managed to shoot a cannon ball through the Denbigh's wheelhouse.
  • Sommer added: We don't help ourselves using 'cyberwar' to describe espionage or hacktivist blockading or defacing of websites, as recently seen in reaction to WikiLeaks. Hackers will not be deterred by UK cyber defences, report warns
  • The Rainbow Warrior had been blockading the military port until police boarded the ship on Saturday night and cut her anchor chain forcing the ship into dock.
  • The Army boys had personnel carriers blockading the cross streets.
  • Rumors were circulating that a small galliot had arrived from down-gulf, bringing news of the blockading fleets. The Shadow Of The Lion
  • Police arrested eight protesters blockading the road outside the consulate.
  • U. S.A - Last year, ex-Vice President Al Gore called the blockading of construction sites of new power plants as an appropriate response to the environmental crisis facing the planet. Undefined
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