How to Use building block in a Sentence

building block

noun

• Proteins, a string of amino acid molecules, are the building blocks of life.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
• Your diet contains the building blocks for lipoproteins.
  — Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2024
• The Lions are in a rebuild, and Sewell offers a terrific building block.
  — oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2021
• Since when does having an up-and-coming building block for an NFL team get hurt qualify as good news?
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 9 May 2021
• The bill is being closely watched as a building block toward a broader infrastructure package.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2021
• Javadifar turned a roadblock in her career into a building block by becoming a strength and conditioning coach.
  — ABC News, 30 Apr. 2021
• Proteins are the building blocks of muscles, tissues, and cells, and sufficient protein intake is necessary for muscle protein synthesis and repair.
  — Lindsey Desoto, Health, 15 Oct. 2024
• They are made of chains of amino acids—commonly considered life’s building blocks—and their specific function is determined by the complex three-dimensional shape these chains fold into.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
• One of the building block’s residents, the 87-year-old Martha quickly takes responsibility for the murder, much to the surprise of her family.
  — Annika Pham, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
• The building blocks for making it to the NFL are laid in high school.
  — Ashley Mahoney, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
• For Tazewell, that choice became the building block for the rest of the costumes.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 14 Dec. 2021
• How can the basic building blocks of our world move and change?
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 July 2024
• It's meant to be a place to sit, a play spot kids can jump on and building blocks for the kids to play with.
  — Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2023
• Brown ale and tomato paste: Like the beef broth, these are two building block of the sauce.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2023
• Among the building blocks of the Civil Rights Movement was music.
  — Bev-Freda Jackson, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2023
• This portion of the spine sets the building block for a majority of your core.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 30 Jan. 2023
• Think of our edit as the building blocks to a perfect capsule fall wardrobe.
  — Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2024
• Once the building blocks are in place, Boi-1da will meet with each artist to finalize their track for the final EP.
  — Matt Tighe, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
• Collins was the first building block in Atlanta’s rebuild.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 25 June 2021
• Yes, most farm subsidies go to corn and soy, two building blocks of cheap junk food.
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• Use these four napkin folds (pumpkin, ghost, bat, and witch) as the building blocks for the rest of your table decor.
  — Anna Logan, Country Living, 31 July 2023
• Collagen acts as a building block for healthy hair, skin, nails, bones, and joints.
  — ELLE, 30 Apr. 2022
• There’s a ping-pong table, cornhole boards and a giant pile of foam building blocks for kids — all in use.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• And then, the next step after that would be making solid building blocks.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
• Head coach Mike Aikens said the season was a huge building block for the franchise going forward.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2022
• The primary building blocks of this design are the core complex dies (CCDs).
  — Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PCMAG, 15 July 2024
• They're made out of building blocks or other types of pieces that can be put together to build the robot.
  — Julie Evans, Parents, 12 Mar. 2024
• Of course, fitness is only one building block to greatness — in any sport.
  — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2022
• Their discussions led to plans for the first studio in Zanzibar — a move Elba believes could be the first building block of a global entertainment hub.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024
• But at the quantum level, the smallest particles that form the building blocks of all matter—including photons and electrons—behave differently.
  — Pramod Kumar, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024