He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
The match proved an unedifying spectacle until Spurs won a corner following their first move of real quality, John Mensah making an important block with Jermain Defoe poised to strike.
I blocked the mittens by wetting them and pinning them to a shaped piece of cardboard.
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Used in the Middle of Sentence
Each condition had five blocks of data, which were comprised of controls, nonCF Pa, mucoid Pa and nonmucoid Pa (Pa was either live cells or spent culture filtrates as indicated).
The lorry is blocking off the road, so traffic has come to a standstill.
[ …] pebbles of vast size, or blocks of stone, attrited by water to smoothness, conjoined by a cement of mud.
Used in the Ending of Sentence
Then simply hit a dead-handed chip, with the hands, wrists and arms all swinging together as if in a solid block.
Leave it unchurned and it’ll set in a solid block.
Meaning of block for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "block" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.