How to Use blockage in a Sentence

blockage

noun

• He had surgery to open up blockages in his arteries.
• On the menu today: big ships, the bank effect, and the last Suez blockage.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 25 Mar. 2021
• If the blockage wages on, however, other sectors could start feeling the pinch.
  — Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2021
• Since then, the blockage has heavily disrupted traffic down the canal.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2021
• The fallout from the Suez Canal blockage is spreading through the oil and gas industry.
  — Francesca Fontana, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2021
• The blockage of a big source of foreign earnings will have worried Egypt’s government.
  — The Economist, 27 Mar. 2021
• In the rare occurrence of distress, it might be caused by an intestinal blockage due to consuming the large, fibrous leaves.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2024
• The blockage is estimated to be costing roughly $400 million an hour in trade.
  — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2021
• And one day after giving birth, Taylor’s daughter had to be sent on a life flight for an emergency surgery to correct an intestinal blockage.
  — Jennifer Folsom, NBC News, 25 Mar. 2021
• The blockage of the Suez Canal effectively sidelines more containers.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• After the blockage, the price of international benchmark Brent crude shot up some 3% to $63 a barrel.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2021
• The price of benchmark international crude rose after the blockage, but prices retreated Thursday.
  — Chris Rugaber, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2021
• In 2023, the agency added a warning about intestinal blockages to Ozempic’s label.
  — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
• Countries located near the canal in Asia and Europe are likely to register the greatest impact from the blockage, Wong says.
  — Marc Bain, Quartz, 26 Mar. 2021
• The blockage of the Suez Canal prolongs a period of unusual pain for global supply chains and unusual profits for the shipping industry that serves them.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2021
• 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
• The heat and force should help turn the blockage into smaller bits.
  — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024