8 sentences with 'blocks'
Example sentences and phrases with the word blocks and other words derived from it.
• « In addition, the extraction of the blocks is difficult, as they must not be contaminated by the clothing or instruments of the personnel collecting the samples. »
• « In the late 1440s, a German goldsmith named Johannes Gutenberg, from the town of Meinz, came up with the idea of carving individual letters into small movable blocks of wood (or casting them in metal) that could be rearranged as necessary to create words. »
• « Gutenberg invented printed illustration in 1461, using carved blocks that matched the dimensions of movable type. »
• « They also carried 10-kilogram blocks of ice from the village, which was three kilometres away. »
• « But as soon as the mechanism fails, it is necessary to stop the action of adrenaline and noradrenaline with a drug that blocks the receptors and prevents their activation. For this purpose, medicine has produced beta-blockers, which are installed in the receptors and block them. They are unable to receive stimuli and therefore unable to elicit responses. »
• « The towers were pentagonal in plan and must have been up to ten metres high. Their base is made of large stone blocks and a brick embankment. »
• « Between prehistory and history are the dolmens, large burial sites made of stone blocks recently identified in the Harar region. »