How to Use building block in a Sentence

building block

noun

• There’s also a dose of arginine, an important amino acid that’s one of the key building blocks of collagen.
  — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2024
• Recognizing that – deep down – will be an important building block for the new and improved you.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 28 Oct. 2020
• Recognizing that — deep down — will be an important building block for the new and improved you.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2020
• Louisville still lost, but that was the foundation, a building block for the defense that trended upward ever since then.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 26 Nov. 2020
• That it’s a foundational building block for everything else good that comes to people.
  — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2020
• Others see it as an important building block in a new world order, in which China calls the shots all over Asia.
  — The Economist, 15 Nov. 2020
• When analyzed, the yellow water was found to contain glycine, the simplest amino acid and an important building block of life.
  — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• Hanbin was a quality building block as his DVa, Zarya and Sigma can hang with the best off-tank players in the world.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2020
• Protein is made of amino acid building blocks that are involved in the growth and maintenance of every tissue and structure within the body, including muscles, bones, skin, nails, and hair.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Dec. 2024
• The trouble is that their elementary building blocks, called qubits, are exceedingly sensitive to disturbance from the outside world.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
• As the trade deadline approached and the Rangers committed more to a long-term rebuild, trading Lynn, with more than a year remaining on his contract, seemed like the right building block.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2020
• Just a few spoonfuls of flavorful cocoa (or, in some versions, a couple of tidy squares of baking chocolate) turn this cake a pale, ruddy brown, the same color as the building blocks of brown stone building facades, thus its name.
  — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Collagen acts as a building block for healthy hair, skin, nails, bones, and joints.
  — ELLE, 30 Apr. 2022
• We are committed to equipping students with the tools to use it effectively and responsibly so that the building blocks of their education are in place.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
• The result is an organization ready for uncertainty; each building block opens the door to greater strategic agility.
  — Shivali Kukreja, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Jan 2025