How to Use building block in a Sentence
building block
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Collins was the first building block in Atlanta’s rebuild.
— Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 25 June 2021 -
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 experience in 2012 was a building block to this moment.
— Tim Bielik, cleveland, 5 July 2021 -
Collagen is a protein that’s a crucial building block for your bones, skin, hair, muscles, ligaments and tendons.
— Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 28 June 2021 -
Cells are both the smallest biological unit that can survive on their own, as well as the building blocks that construct all living organisms.
— Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024 -
From my perspective, the individual voter is the building block of the democratic process.
— Stephen Markman, WSJ, 25 June 2021 -
It can also be viewed as an example as to how a plurilateral effort can be the building block of a multilateral initiative.
— London Business School, Forbes, 7 June 2021 -
Thematic funds tend to be riskier than broad market plays, and so aren’t suitable as a building block of a core portfolio, Mr. Johnson says.
— Cheryl Winokur Munk, WSJ, 7 June 2021 -
Storage, usually in the form of batteries, is seen as a key building block of a carbon-free grid, capturing electricity produced by wind and solar.
— Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021 -
Translating all those pieces of data into an aligned message for your stakeholders will serve as the building block of your communication strategy.
— Felipe Reisch, Forbes, 5 July 2021 -
This is critical, as storage is a foundational building block for our IT environments.
— Matt Kimball, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024 -
Semiconductors are the fundamental building blocks of modern IT.
— Tommy Greene, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2024 -
Once perfected, Condor will likely become the future building block for a giant fault-tolerant quantum computer with millions of qubits.
— Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 15 June 2021 -
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 -
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
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