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a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
he lives in the next block
How To Use city block In A Sentence
- Many a pleasant evening the two spent there, talking of locomotive planished iron, wire nails, and turnbuckles, and the late lunch Miss Monon served beat the system's regular buffet service a city block. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
- It was as high as an apartment building and as long as a city block. Bomber
- They created a network of more or less typical city blocks, some with alleyways and private drives.
- Libby Prison encompassed an entire city block in Richmond.
- Interior hallways run nearly the length of a city block, and could have resembled an endless, generic motel corridor.
- Some of the most successful moments of the project therefore were the spontaneous reactions and participation from the unknowing public, and the happenings that characterise this particular city block.
- On the Panamanian side, city blocks were plotted along radial avenues.
- Three government workers labored to fill a dump truck with freshly cut trees over the holiday weekend — clearing just a portion of a single city block would be an all-day affair.
- Three government workers labored to fill a dump truck with freshly cut trees over the holiday weekend — clearing just a portion of a single city block would be an all-day affair.
- When I interviewed Nora Balaban who studied mbira in Zimbabwe, she told me of a master player named Garikayi Tirikoti who was living only a few city blocks from me. Michal Shapiro: The Good News From Zimbabwe: Healing Music of the Mbira