How to Use blocky in a Sentence

blocky

adjective

• His face was strong and blocky, his white hair thick and rough.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2021
• The blocky dash has knobs and buttons that are easy to spot but can be hard to reach.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 3 Aug. 2017
• The acres of raw, blocky basalt look as fresh as the flows shown spilling from Kilauea on the nightly news.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 June 2018
• The blocky machine stood about chest-high, on four wheels, not quite as long as a golf cart.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2020
• What’s on the horizon: With its rough, blocky shape, quince might look more like a Bizarro World-type pear.
  — Noelle Carter, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Grateful for bales of hay, both blocky like Legos and round like sushi.
  — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2020
• The old Maxus was blocky and kind of hard to get a comfortable grip on for those with smaller hands.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 23 Feb. 2021
• Meta is not alone in the blocky simplicity of its VR avatars.
  — Rachel Metz, CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
• The highlights are thick and blocky, serving early 2000s vibes for sure.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2020
• Through two home games, Lambeau has missed blocky cheese heads and Lambeau Leaps.
  — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2020
• Gideon thrashed around and knocked his blocky head into the wall, the metal choker still clinging to his neck.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• To me, Minecraft is the most human of all games, despite its blocky aesthetic.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2019
• When it was removed from West Englewood, the pedestal snapped away from the bust, so Lincoln sat on the floor, across from the thick, blocky base.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• The facility sits on the first floor of a blocky four-story, 1960s-era building.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 26 Aug. 2021
• Imagine finding blocky pigs and cows on a farm, in your backyard or in your bedroom.
  — Harold Goldberg, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
• Dubbed the EVolved, the reborn sports car keeps its forebear’s trick door design but ditches its blocky styling.
  — Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 30 May 2022
• The new shape is wavier and less blocky than the original Wave Runner 700, with sloping stripes and fluid shapes.
  — Liz Raiss, GQ, 11 May 2018
• Microsoft’s Minecraft Earth brings the charming, blocky world of a decade-old game into meatspace (aka the real world).
  — Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2019
• The four-bedroom house has a blocky facade and grassy cut-outs that provide gaps for the variety of flora to bloom and grow.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 27 Mar. 2018
• So when the signs go up, the blocky vehicles sometimes move just a few streets away, spurring complaints from a new set of neighbors.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Just beyond us, the beloved, round Hirshhorn; the beloved, blocky Air and Space Museum.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2017
• As is frequently the case after games, Whitlock marched through the Red Sox clubhouse with the slow, blocky gait of a zombie.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2022
• The production tools Lam makes in Tualatin are large, blocky instruments the size of a car or walk-in freezer.
  — Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• Racer’, this one has well-ribbed, blocky pumpkins, with strong handles.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 25 May 2018
• Certain blocky-looking shirts bought for him by his mother.
  — Marisa Silver, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2017
• The game has long had blocky, iconic but relatively unattractive avatars, but that’s about to change.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• About 70 percent of the dogs have the blocky heads, toothy smiles and beefy bodies associated with pit bulls.
  — Vikki Ortiz Healy, chicagotribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• In one senior-yearbook photo, he is posed atop a boulder, legs out to the side, his long arms holding up his blocky frame.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
• The short, blocky feet in an espresso wood stain coordinate with any fabric choice.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2022
• Rather, the system would take a color input from a specific place or object behind it and put it in a specific patch, but those colors would be relatively blocky.
  — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024