How to Use building block in a Sentence

building block

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  • The building blocks for making it to the NFL are laid in high school.
    — Ashley Mahoney, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
  • For Tazewell, that choice became the building block for the rest of the costumes.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The chance to draft a franchise building block is just too great.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2021
  • How can the basic building blocks of our world move and change?
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 July 2024
  • It's meant to be a place to sit, a play spot kids can jump on and building blocks for the kids to play with.
    — Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The building block of flash cards comes in a 300-count pack that’ll get you through at least a few months of the school year.
    — Krystin Arneson, CNN Underscored, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Brown ale and tomato paste: Like the beef broth, these are two building block of the sauce.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Overall, the Ravens put down a strong building block in the opener.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The Reds hope the 2020 season will serve as a building block for next summer.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Rosetta caught whiffs of glycine, one of the amino acid building blocks of proteins.
    — Elise Cutts, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The past Fuel teams weren’t as close as this one, and Yun is looking to that as a building block.
    — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Among the building blocks of the Civil Rights Movement was music.
    — Bev-Freda Jackson, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2023
  • This portion of the spine sets the building block for a majority of your core.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Think of our edit as the building blocks to a perfect capsule fall wardrobe.
    — Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2024
  • He was obsessed with breakfast, a building block for a good day’s work.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Proteins, a string of amino acid molecules, are the building blocks of life.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Once the building blocks are in place, Boi-1da will meet with each artist to finalize their track for the final EP.
    — Matt Tighe, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Collins was the first building block in Atlanta’s rebuild.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 25 June 2021
  • Yes, most farm subsidies go to corn and soy, two building blocks of cheap junk food.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Use these four napkin folds (pumpkin, ghost, bat, and witch) as the building blocks for the rest of your table decor.
    — Anna Logan, Country Living, 31 July 2023
  • His first season was supposed to be a building block year.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Collagen acts as a building block for healthy hair, skin, nails, bones, and joints.
    — ELLE, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The hypothesis is that the first shot is your body getting the building block of a protein.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • There’s a ping-pong table, cornhole boards and a giant pile of foam building blocks for kids — all in use.
    — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • And then, the next step after that would be making solid building blocks.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The acid tears them up because the layers of helices stuck together are too big to be the building blocks of nanofibers.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Head coach Mike Aikens said the season was a huge building block for the franchise going forward.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2022
  • The primary building blocks of this design are the core complex dies (CCDs).
    — Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PCMAG, 15 July 2024
  • Initially the company made Lego-like building blocks for younger children.
    — Yue Wang, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Its amino acids are often considered building blocks for muscle tissue.
    — Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Ld, Health, 13 Jan. 2025

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