Blockading is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BLOCKADING in dictionary:

VERB:
• BLOCKADE, to block with troops or ships
• seal off (a place) to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving
NOUN:
• an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving
• an obstruction of a physiological or mental function, especially of a biochemical receptor.
ADJECTIVE:
• blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors

Words related to BLOCKADING

blockade17 blockaded19 blockades18

Words that contain BLOCKADING

counterblockading29

How to use BLOCKADING in a sentence

• Far away, like snow-white gulls in the distance, were the sails of the blockading fleet.
• Upon this the Romans abandoned their preparations for an assault, and contented themselves with blockading the walls by land and water.
• In the Franco-Prussian war of 1871, the Germans were blockading the city of Paris and the country around it.
• The blockading fleet finds, therefore, a base in the great harbour of Rosyth, while a cruiser squadron might lie in support off the Orkney Isles.
• They are not blockading Genoa, he said, but simply occupying the station best suited to intercept a contraband trade.
• Rear-Admiral Man, who had been blockading Cadiz since his detachment there by Hotham, in October, 1795, was ordered up to the main fleet.
• I am blockading Genoa, according to the orders of the Admiralty, and in the way I think most proper.
• Vessels attempting to enter or leave these ports, if they disregarded the warnings of a blockading ship, were to be captured and brought as prizes to the nearest convenient port.
• I had determined to try a new method of getting through the blockading squadron, seeing that the usual plan, as described above, was no longer feasible or, at least, advisable.
• We were hidden by Fort Fisher from the blockading squadron lying off the bar, there to remain till some time after nightfall.
• Rumor immediately had it that she was from the blockading fleet of Santiago, and every eye was turned upon her with interest.
• Now she quickly displayed the night-signal of the American blockading fleet, as well as her own private number, but no answer came to either.
• Our blockading fleet, with accompanying transports, lay at anchor in Tybee harbor.
• In the night a fresh gale brought over a flotilla of French provision boats, which dashed through the English blockading squadron.
• For thirty to forty days, each blockading ship kept the seas and then returned to port for a short period of rest.
• To Hawke was entrusted the task of blockading Conflans in Brest, and a greater feat of seamanship is not to be found in British records.
• In 1668 he was in command of several vessels and 300 men, blockading Havana.
• A buccaneer who in the year 1684 was one of the mixed English and French fleet blockading Panama.
• Years before the first shot was fired the French and British Navies had prepared their plans for blockading the Austrians in the Adriatic and the Germans in the North Sea.
• So friend and foe alike are apt to side against us by making the laws against blockading fleets very much harder than those against besieging armies.
• So if besieging armies have the right to stop supplies from reaching the places they besiege, why should blockading fleets be told to let supplies go through? 2.
• We banged the workroom door shut and I took time to shove a heavy divan against it, blockading it.
• Before we could help Belgium, England, blockading Germany to keep her from getting foodstuffs, had to consent.
• They are only ways of blockading completely the progress to come, of building up the past again behind new patchwork of plaster.
• I think the papers related to several blockade running vessels coming out from England, and of course the Yankee blockading ships will be ready for them.
• Blockading squadrons, therefore, had to be improvised, and orders at once issued for the purchase and equipment of steam vessels from the merchant marine and the coasting service.
• Besides blockading our extensive coast, squadrons larger than ever before assembled under our flag have been put afloat and performed deeds which have increased our naval renown.
• Union fleets were blockading every important Southern port.
• While Tordenskjold was away at Marstrand, the enemy sallied forth and snapped up seven of the smaller vessels of his blockading fleet.
• Ahead of him and on each beam were the slow-moving vessels of the blockading squadron, most of them hull down and with banked fires.
• Soon he ordered the Russian fleet, which in cooeperation with the squadrons of the allies was blockading Malta, to withdraw from the conflict.
• I say, it could not be prevented, even if the whole British fleet were blockading it, instead of being there to relieve it.
• But they find it more profitable to hold the nation to ransom by blockading the supply of the necessaries of life.
• A new colored leader, Dessalines, arose and all the eight thousand remaining French surrendered to the blockading British fleet.

Similar words containing BLOCKAD without suffix ing

blockade17 blockaded19 blockader18 blockades18 blockaders19 counterblockade26 counterblockadi26 counterblockaded28 counterblockades27 counterblockading29

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