Example sentences for: bloc

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

  • The Democratic Party spurned Mississippi's "Freedom Party" delegation, seating a bloc of segregationist whites instead.

  • Herewith, a primer on the transition to democracy and capitalism in the old Soviet bloc and former Soviet Republics.

  • 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.

  • An industrial city, Santiago was hit especially hard when Cuba lost its Soviet support and Eastern bloc trade partners during the Special Period.

  • 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.


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