Example sentences for: bloc

How can you use “bloc” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The transition from communism to capitalism has not been easy, as all the former Eastern bloc states have found, but Hungary, at least, has a significant share of Western investments to help support its rather fragile economy.

  • He abandoned segregationism when South Carolina's blacks became a powerful voting bloc, throwing his support behind the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, hiring black staffers, and recommending a black man for appointment as a federal judge.

  • You let one alien nation move into your trade bloc, and pretty soon the whole neighborhood goes downhill.

  • Although the Communist Party will remain the biggest single bloc in the Duma, having won 24 percent of the vote, the success of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's Unity Party, which claimed 23 percent, took the ink.

  • Twenty-seven countries have sprouted out of the former Soviet bloc, and ethnicity has replaced ideology as Europe's primary source of friction.


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