How to Use building block in a Sentence

building block

noun

• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• They're made out of building blocks or other types of pieces that can be put together to build the robot.
  — Julie Evans, Parents, 12 Mar. 2024
• There was Begum with a soccer ball and building blocks for her son, who was jumping up and down at her side.
  — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2024
• Of course, fitness is only one building block to greatness — in any sport.
  — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2022
• The series misses the building blocks of good storytelling in pursuit of the cherries on top of the sundae.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
• But the grid is still only in two dimensions, or in three with only one kind of building block.
  — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 26 Mar. 2021
• This is because proteins play several crucial roles in the body, including providing energy, helping the brain and immune system function, and serving as building blocks for muscle, bone, skin, hair, and nails.
  — Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 18 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Jan 2025