How to Use bloc in a Sentence

bloc

noun

• Farmers have been protesting throughout the bloc for weeks.
  — Raf Casert, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
• Members of that bloc might be reluctant to make any changes, since the rule is the very thing that empowers them.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• The result reduced the leaders of the bloc’s biggest nations, Germany and France, to lame ducks.
  — Max Hastings, Twin Cities, 12 June 2024
• The bloc is already home to one of the world's most-active emissions-trading markets.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2022
• But Hillary got the biggest voting bloc from Black women—94% of black women voted for Hillary.
  — Janell Ross, Time, 21 Nov. 2022
• The bloc’s executive arm was set to come forward with a plan to deal with the shortages Tuesday.
  — Raf Casertand and Samuel Petrequin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2022
• Latin America is not a unified trading bloc like the EU.
  — Morten Johansen, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
• Abarca is part of a four-member bloc that supports putting the tax to a vote in April before all the key issues are addressed.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
• The Knesset has a total of a hundred and twenty seats; Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc holds sixty-four of them.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 30 July 2023
• Though the process stalled, Turkey has remained a key economic and defense partner for the bloc.
  — Inci Ozbek, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2023
• Jurado and Burgos, if elected, could add two more votes to that bloc.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
• The idea of Latinos moving as a monolith or like a cohesive voting bloc is a myth.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Don’t rock the boat too much for the industry or for seniors, a crucial voting bloc in this week’s midterm elections.
  — Bob Herman Reprints, STAT, 7 Nov. 2022
• Norway now supplies 30% of the bloc’s gas; Gazprom provided about 35% of all Europe’s gas before the war.
  — Priscila Azevedo Rocha, Fortune Europe, 13 May 2024
• Inflation in Hungary is among the highest in the EU at over 25%, well more than double the bloc’s average of just over 10%.
  — Justin Spike, ajc, 18 Feb. 2023
• But there are reasons to believe that Democrats may do even worse this year among the key voting bloc, long a pillar of the party's coalition.
  — Steve Peoples, ajc, 7 Nov. 2022
• But there are reasons to believe that Democrats may do even worse this year among the key voting bloc, long a pillar of the party’s coalition.
  — Steve Peoples, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
• Black voters Black voters have long been a loyal voting bloc for Democrats.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2024
• The bloc’s return to modest growth coincides with a first-quarter pickup in China and a slowdown in the U.S.
  — Paul Hannon, wsj.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• At the same time, the Trump campaign’s laser-focus on young men is an investment in a voting bloc that doesn't have a great track record of showing up.
  — Charlotte Alter, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
• The exact measures in the next EU sanctions package must be agreed upon by the bloc’s 27 member countries — a process that can take weeks.
  — Susie Blann, ajc, 3 Feb. 2023
• The exact measures in the next EU sanctions package must be agreed upon by the bloc's 27 member countries -- a process that can take weeks.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Feb. 2023
• Young people are poised to become the largest bloc of voters in America by 2025, Fisher said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2023
• Yaroslavsky has been part of a five-member bloc that routinely votes against new 41.18 locations.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• The bloc’s energy ministers will meet this week to continue to hash out the details.
  — Verity Ratcliffe, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2022
• That demographic is a crucial bloc that Harris will likely need to win big to carry the state.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
• Christie campaigned heavily to win the votes of some of New Hampshire's undeclared voters, a key bloc in the state that makes up nearly 40% of the electorate.
  — Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2024
• The two rulings deal a blow to the dominance of the tech giants in Europe but mark a key victory for the bloc’s regulators.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 10 Sep. 2024
• One bloc of countries that has yet to add its voice is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
  — Marites Dañguilan Vitug, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
• This strengthens the sense that the centrist parties form a bloc or a cartel, and that voting for them doesn’t change anything, and therefore the only way to change anything is by voting for more radical parties.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 24 Jan 2025