Noun : We had difficulty in getting through the blockade of bodyguards.    From Dictionary.com. 

Prime minister David Cameron was a little nearer the mark when he called the blockaded Gaza.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference

(Gaza is blockaded which is even worse than being occupied by israel).    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

They were blockaded, it is true, and inactive within.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

Manila was blockaded came in for enormously advanced prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

Across the Continent, protesters blockaded roads and refineries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe Runs On Fumes] Reference

While the Spanish fleet, under Admiral Cervera, lay blockaded in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference

Their crime was high treason against Medina while it was blockaded.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference

Accordingly, he blockaded Sackett's Harbour, and on the morning of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

Deep snows covered hill, rock, and valley, and ice blockaded the fiord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

Then came the winter, and the cabin was often blockaded with snow for weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

Coron was running short of supplies, and a Turkish fleet blockaded the port.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference

 The city is blockaded and all comms are squelched at the metro interchange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Better Alive Than Dead] Reference

But a main road through the subdivision dead ends at a blockaded intersection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Housing Inventory Stalls Economic Recovery] Reference

Gert returned to blockaded Berlin in 1949 -- largely forgotten and trying to start over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Gladysz: The Remarkable Life of Valeska Gert] Reference

Then the Israeli commando raid on a Turkish-led flotilla of relief ships for blockaded Gaza.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once More, Tensions And Promise In Mideast Conflict] Reference

Busaco, when blockaded in the lines of Torres Vedras, their situation was far from agreeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference

Sir John Borlase, the naval commander, in North America, blockaded every harbour in the United.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

Last week, one Faroese boat was blockaded at the quayside by angry local skippers in Peterhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shetland trawlermen illegally caught £15m worth of herring and mackerel] Reference

Dewey had blockaded the port of Manila, so he restrained Marie from starting home for nearly a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War] Reference

Last week angry gondoliers blockaded the canal, forcing speedboats to hit the brakes as they approached.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gondola Gripe] Reference

It was here her son Henry I., then only Count of the Cotentin, was blockaded by his brothers William and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

On June 24, he cut electricity to the Western sector and blockaded all ground and water traffic to the city.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Like Music To Our Ears'] Reference

Slocum ran toward Jerry, who opened the door to step out, but found the way blockaded by Casey, his book-keeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

McCook, of the United States army, and were on the way to Washington, then blockaded by the roughs of Baltimore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

I find myself blockaded by a fall of three feet of water, three feet four inches being the amount now on the falls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

At any rate, the port of Archangel would be one other inlet for food supplies to reach the tightly blockaded Germans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Adriatic; and subsequently he blockaded Brindisi, and waited for the garrison to hoist the white flag of the Bourbons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference

When war actually commenced, the capital at Washington was practically blockaded, and in the power of the Confederates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

Jephthah Turrentine make his protest against the government's attitude toward the mountain man and his "blockaded still.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

When he was ready, the army and the boats went down the Don; Azof was blockaded by sea and by land, and forced to capitulate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Russia] Reference

The store of ammunition was very low, and as soon as they were blockaded, the townspeople found themselves short of provisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

"I reckon you-all won't deny that you have made many a run of blockaded whiskey right here in this cave," put in Scalf, nervously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

This state of affairs continued until 1800 when Denmark became involved in a war with Great Britain and the islands were blockaded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

Even a casual observer could have told that an auto had had some part in dragging the log to the place where it blockaded the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat, or, the Rivals of Lake Carlopa] Reference

Every southern port was more or less successfully blockaded, and the power of the government in this was every month growing stronger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference