How to Use bloc in a Sentence

bloc

noun
  • 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
  • The bloc’s energy ministers will meet this week to continue to hash out the details.
    Verity Ratcliffe, Fortune, 24 Oct. 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
  • His failure to win 61 seats for his bloc or increase the size of his Likud party could, this time, end his political career for good, some local pundits say.
    Ruth Marks Eglash, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • His bloc includes his party, Likud, which will be the largest party in Parliament, though it was boosted to power by welcoming far-right support.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Hundreds of diplomats and civil servants have signed open letters protesting the decision to suspend talks with the E.U. and stop receiving any funds from the bloc for four years.
    Reuters, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Latinos vote differently depending on age, religion, gender, and cultural background—much like any other bloc of voters.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The European Union and several of the bloc’s foreign ministers condemned Russia’s strikes on cities across Ukraine as a war crime.
    Laurence Norman, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2022
  • But Netanyahu, who has been opposition leader for a year and a half, worked diligently to shore up his bloc of allies with a series of cooperation deals and mergers to ensure that no votes were lost.
    Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Trump did notably well with Latino men, who may also have been hesitant as a demographic bloc to vote for a woman, Schiller said.
    Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024

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