How to Use blockage in a Sentence

blockage

noun

• He had surgery to open up blockages in his arteries.
• Someone that has a blockage in the gland, that’s not the case.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 21 Dec. 2024
• Some of the problems can be blamed on the six-day-long blockage of the Suez Canal in March.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 May 2021
• How was the train just sitting there on the other side of the blockage?
  — Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 16 May 2021
• Through a blood vessel in the groin, a tube is guided to a blockage in the heart.
  — Gina Kolata, SFChronicle.com, 16 Nov. 2019
• On the menu today: big ships, the bank effect, and the last Suez blockage.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 25 Mar. 2021
• The heat and force should help turn the blockage into smaller bits.
  — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
• The best way to deal with this is warm compresses to help loosen the blockage.
  — Maria Del Russo, Woman's Day, 3 Apr. 2020
• The blockage forces the heart to work harder and can lead to cardiac damage.
  — The Enquirer, 9 May 2023
• If there was, the injured tissue had to be removed and the blockage opened.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• If the pain centers on the forehead, that may indicate a blockage in the carotid artery in the neck.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2023
• The blockage added to a series of events that have wreaked havoc on the world’s supply lines.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 23 June 2021
• The Russian blockage of millions of tons of grain has led to food shortages in Africa and Asia.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 22 July 2022
• Tess returns, taking them on a route around the blockage.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023
• Things might take longer now, but there won’t be a total blockage.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2022
• The fatty deposits can block the flow of oxygen and blood that the heart needs to work and the blockage can lead to a heart attack or stroke.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 6 Nov. 2022
• In such a situation, the WCS can reroute totes around the blockage.
  — Steve Banker, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• The kind of heart attack caused by that blockage is known as the widow maker.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Sep. 2021
• Will another incident such as a tsunami or the Suez Canal blockage stop the flow of goods to the West and the rest of the world?
  — Cyrus Hadavi, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• Hundreds of other ships waited in place for the blockage to end.
  — Samy Magdy, ajc, 23 May 2021
• The blockage has ignited wild price swings for crops and the cost of transporting them.
  — New York Times, 28 July 2022
• The fallout from the Suez Canal blockage is spreading through the oil and gas industry.
  — Francesca Fontana, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2021
• The closure lasted so long because of the lane blockage and debris from the crash, the two agencies said.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2023
• The cause was an intestinal blockage, her son Robert Schachter said.
  — Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
• In simplest terms, KP is a blockage of the hair follicles.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2020
• The blockage stops blood from reaching the left side of the heart, which then stops working properly.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 6 July 2021
• The Suez Canal blockage delayed goods shipments in March.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
• The self-driving car has become a blockage and is straddling the only open lane.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• This type can happen because of blood clots that block blood vessels or plaques causing blockages by building up in the vessels.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
• Recurrent ulcers can increase the risk of bleeding, or a blockage or a hole forming in the stomach or small intestine.
  — Alice Callahan, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 16 Mar 2025