How to Use building block in a Sentence

building block

noun

• 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
• The past Fuel teams weren’t as close as this one, and Yun is looking to that as a building block.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Proteins, a string of amino acid molecules, are the building blocks of life.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 9 Oct. 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
• The acid tears them up because the layers of helices stuck together are too big to be the building blocks of nanofibers.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Nov. 2024
• 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
• The series misses the building blocks of good storytelling in pursuit of the cherries on top of the sundae.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
• But the grid is still only in two dimensions, or in three with only one kind of building block.
  — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 26 Mar. 2021
• In a nutshell, the building blocks of any electoral consensus are weak at best.
  — Chris Jackson, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2024
• These elements form the basic building blocks of DNA and help to power our cells.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• But the one item that’s a necessary building block for any fall look is a (really chic) blouse.
  — Emma Guillen, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
• The building blocks are constructive and destructive at the same time, the artist told a visitor to the show opening.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• The experience in 2012 was a building block to this moment.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 5 July 2021
• As part of the grant, Eastwood ran a series of workshops that acted as building blocks for the formation of the collective that was formed in late 2020.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024