How to Use building block in a Sentence

building block

noun

• That’s a building block for a team with a very young core.
  — Zak Keefer, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
• 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
• The chance to draft a franchise building block is just too great.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 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
• The building block of flash cards comes in a 300-count pack that’ll get you through at least a few months of the school year.
  — Krystin Arneson, CNN Underscored, 6 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Overall, the Ravens put down a strong building block in the opener.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• The Reds hope the 2020 season will serve as a building block for next summer.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2020
• Some of these types of molecules are the building blocks for life.
  — Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2025
• The large language models are just the building blocks.
  — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025
• Rosetta caught whiffs of glycine, one of the amino acid building blocks of proteins.
  — Elise Cutts, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Think of this piece as the building block for your ensemble.
  — Wendy Vazquez, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Jan. 2025
• The Chandrayaan missions are seen as building blocks to that plan.
  — Manveena Suri and Swati Gupta, CNN, 4 Sep. 2019
• Those two figure to be building blocks for the program.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2018
• 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
• He was obsessed with breakfast, a building block for a good day’s work.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• 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
• His first season was supposed to be a building block year.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 21 Aug. 2020
• Collagen acts as a building block for healthy hair, skin, nails, bones, and joints.
  — ELLE, 30 Apr. 2022
• The hypothesis is that the first shot is your body getting the building block of a protein.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• It’s widely accepted that debt is one of the chief building blocks of a prosperous economy.
  — Mike Patton, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 1 Mar 2025