• She took out a large knife from the cutting block and sliced a piece of cheese, promptly eating one.
• Extracting a block of wood and a knife he held it up to her from his seat on the floor.

• It is made by placing a well-chilled block of ice cream on a base of sponge cake, masking it with uncooked meringue, and then baking it in a hot oven.
• They couldn't have been simpler, just a block of vanilla ice cream in a glass and then fill with either coke or lemonade.
• The easiest way to shape thin chocolate curls is to shave them directly from a block of chocolate, using a swivel vegetable peeler or sharp knife.

• The blocks of paper demolished the wall that was being repaired by builder David Gott after they were flung from the vehicle on the sharp corner bend approaching Keighley Road from Colne.
• A large conference table and whiteboard occupied one side of the room; the other side was filled with desks, notebooks and drawing blocks.
• if you want to make good watercolor sketches, pick up a block<(em> of watercolor paper in some portable size.

Synonyms

• I'm trying to focus and not to false start, fall at the line or basically walk instead of run out of the blocks as I sometimes do because any of these things could happen.
• She blasted out of the blocks and immediately established her dominance over the other runners.
• We were slow out of the blocks against Italy but we expected a difficult game anyway in Rome.

• The printing blocks are made of wood, metal and other materials.
• The goal is to provide practical experience about block printing and registration of blocks.

• Descending the reef again, I came across the engine block and crankshaft.
• You need a piston, a manifold, then you need an engine block, a carburetor, a distributer, this that and the other thing.

• The completion of the science block is not the end of developments at the School.
• But the school burned down and many classrooms and hostel blocks were completely destroyed.
• A women's centre and an urban prayer garden complete the Cathedral block.

• Round the block is Molesworth Street, home to a number of art establishments.
• It was parked at the end of the street and he drove it round the block, intending to park it outside his house, but was stopped on the way.
• I've been up the street, around the block, into the store and home again.

• At the same time in DC, three intimidating looking black guys pulled up in front of a big house on a tree-lined block in a suburban neighborhood.
• The Trust owns about 70 percent of four blocks in that area.
• Regular maintenance of the street ended after three blocks and the area beyond looked rougher.

• I would never backpack or turn a somersault or jump to the ground from even the most modest height or run the length of half a block.
• Interior hallways run nearly the length of a city block, and could have resembled an endless, generic motel corridor.
• Although the distance to the pool was only about the length of a short block, my feet felt as though they were about to fall off because they were so cold.

• Maybe you type the same blocks of text into your email messages thirty times a day.
• Text messaging, which allows blocks of text up to 160 characters long to be sent, has been a huge success with 50 million being sent in Britain alone every day.

• This also limits his ability to make downfield blocks on linebackers.
• Moss, meanwhile, began running out every pattern, even when he was a decoy, and he started throwing blocks downfield.
• Dilger doesn't hesitate to sell out on a block downfield or on the line.

• Exactly half of his deliveries were on a good length, and while he banged 18 in short, another 11 were pitched well up in the blockhole.
• He misses, the ball lands in the block hole, and makes contact with the pads.

• There were also many blocks of land listed in Adelaide and country towns as well as cattle, sheep and farming implements.
• His scheme collapsed and he and his family settled on a block of land south west of Clare.

• If we wander in here, see I suppose this area here is probably only about as big as a couple of suburban blocks of land.
• The business was being used to sell country homes and blocks of land throughout New South Wales.

• Fortunately I think our firewall had been blocking the access attempts, but the popup ads were still happening.
• But this Council finds the idea distasteful and is blocking every attempt to find a suitable location.
• Can you blame the Senate blocking his half-baked attempts at policy formulation?

Synonyms

• The idea of blocking access where someone is using a lot of bandwidth just doesn't work.
• It was a matter of blocking the critical political web sites.
• If requested by police it can block telephone numbers to stop someone calling out, including texting.

• In his evidence, he said that if the acquisition was blocked, it would have been a waste of a ‘tremendous amount of time and energy’.
• This has been blamed for blocking overseas-bound investment by mainland enterprises.

• He suffered the injury when he was blocked low on a screen pass.
• Supposedly he managed to retain his agility as he put on weight, which should help him in pulling and getting out to block linebackers.

• He brought his stave up and I quickly dropped my left hand, dealing him a one-handed blow on the side off his arm before bringing my own stave up to block his blow.
• Every single one of his intended blows was blocked and parried, even when the man tripped and fell backwards.
• Two shots were blocked but the ball eventually fell to Chambers who slotted it into the far corner.

Synonyms

• And with the Aussie bowling around the wicket into the rough, he is content to let the ball hit his front pad and block the over out.
• He declined to play attacking shots for the best part of his stay at the crease, not even looking to score, and instead blocked, padded up or left the ball alone.

• Often, however, you cannot take the discard pile because you are blocked by a black three discarded by your right hand opponent.
• They also block the discard pile for the opponents when discarded.