The blockading ships prevented delivery of munitions.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

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

In that case, it becomes clear that while it is not criminal, it is a hostile act that entitles the blockading nation to respond inkind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”] Reference

Orleans, which was engaged in blockading that port.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

The nine vessels of the blockading fleet lay along the north side of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

Nelson next employed him in taking orders to the squadron blockading Malta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference

She was evidently blockading that harbor, and had run down the coast to reconnoitre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

Brest; -- in either case, a formidable contingency to be apprehended by the blockading force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

Council (12 Nov.) with a request for a loan of £6,000 for the troops engaged in blockading Chester.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

Those options include bombing Serbian military positions and blockading Albanian arms-smuggling routes.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Time To 'Get Serious'] Reference

This is the general dépôt for stores for the whole army on the Atlantic coast and the blockading fleet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference

At the same time the invaders adopted the additional plan of blockading the mountains both by sea and land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference

Passing rapidly on, we soon arrived within hailing distance of our blockading squadron, safely riding at anchor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flag Replaced on Sumter A Personal Narrative] Reference

Towards evening two or three of the blockading fleet stationed off that bar steamed in, and opened fire upon her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

When the blockading squadron was forced off by want of provisions, the Spanish admiral Don José Navarro put to sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

We were bound for the Mediterranean, to touch at Malta and Gibraltar, and then join the blockading squadron before Genoa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference

Then he steered for Cadiz, drove off Sir John Orde's blockading squadron of six sail, and entered the harbour on the 9th.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

Washington wrote a letter for the Kuwaiti emir to sign, in which he asked the United States to help him by blockading Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Path] Reference

Meanwhile, the Turks were pressing the siege of Famagusta, blockading it by land and sea, and sapping slowly up to its walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

He told us, moreover, a most interesting piece of news; that the firing we heard the other day was from the blockading fleet off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference

Federal navy, laid in the channel at Newport News, blockading the mouth of James river and cutting off communication from Norfolk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

The castle of Edinburgh remained still unsubdued; and the Prince, upon his return to that city, resolved on blockading the fortress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference

St. Catharine's Sound, where, on the same day, he had communication with a vessel belonging to the blockading fleet; but, at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Millions of young workers across the country are blockading their factories and chanting "there are no human rights here!" and "we want freedom!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: And the Most Inspiring Good News Story of the Year Is...] Reference

Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, says he hopes for a return to the heyday of blockading in 1991, when protesters laid siege to Wichita.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Clear Path To A Barricade] Reference

The court held, 6 to 3, that an obscure 1871 civil-rights law could no longer be used to bar anti-abortion activists from blockading abortion clinics.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Clear Path To A Barricade] Reference

Workers are laying siege to all things Indonesian, blockading its embassy, refusing to load its ships, grounding flights of its national airline, Garuda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Sydney Is Screaming] Reference

As the sun set, the order was given to go at full speed, and before midnight we had passed safely through the blockading fleet, and had come to anchor off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

Of the neutral warships in the bay, Germany had sent the largest number, and the actions of their commanders caused much anxiety to the blockading forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

Owing to the constantly increasing vigilance of the blockading fleet, and the accession to the navy of fast cruisers, many prizes had been captured of late.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

Across Britain, truckers and farmers infuriated by rising fuel prices were blockading refinery gates and tying up highway traffic with slow-driving convoys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fuel And Fury] Reference

Whatever Israel's commandos may have accomplished in blockading Gaza, the cost in the closest friendship Israel had in the Muslim world is bound to be high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turkey's Loyalties May Be Shifting] Reference

You tried to strike me with your whip, as I was shoving your carriage out of the way, which I had a perfect right to do, as you were blockading the highway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island] Reference

The authorities, quite aware of a possible blockading and consequent stoppage of imports, have made preparations with their usual thorough German completeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference

After blockading the mouth of the river for ten days without the slightest prospect of success, I anchored at Montego Bay, and procured fresh beef for the crew.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

Having crossed New Inlet Bar early one morning, she steamed at her best speed towards the blockading-fleet, which kept beyond the range of her guns with much ease.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

We sailed in the Chickamauga on the night of October 29th, with a motley crew, and passed through the blockading fleet without receiving any damage from numerous shots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

Pitching his camp along the shore both north and south, and blockading the harbor on the east, he sent messengers through the land to enlist the peasantry in his cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference