How to Use bloc in a Sentence

bloc

noun

• Farmers have been protesting throughout the bloc for weeks.
  — Raf Casert, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
• The pipeline accounts for more than a third of Russian gas exports to the trading bloc.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 21 July 2022
• Should countries like Hungary be able to hold the rest of the bloc to ransom with its veto, and how can the EU reform that?
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 31 May 2022
• 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
• The endorsement is set to be discussed by the bloc's leaders next week in Brussels.
  — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 17 June 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
• The impasse embarrassed the bloc, which was forced to scale down its ambitions in a bid to get Hungary on board.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 31 May 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, Fortune, 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, ajc, 7 Nov. 2022
• That bloc’s opposition has meant the House needs Democratic votes for a CR.
  — Richard McGahey, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
• Black voters Black voters have long been a loyal voting bloc for Democrats.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2024
• Now the 27-member bloc is waking up to a harsh reality.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• 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 end of July the annual inflation rate in the Eurozone—the bloc of 19 countries that use the Euro—stood at an all-time record of 8.9%.
  — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• 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
• South Carolina, with its large bloc of Black Democrats, may move from fourth to third, freeing up a large Midwestern state to go next.
  — Will Weissert, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2022
• The bloc’s other member parties are currently parts of governments in the Netherlands and Italy.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2025
• Leaders will discuss ways to move the bigger package forward and avoid a likely veto by Hungary, the bloc's most Russian-friendly country.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025