How to Use building block in a Sentence

building block

noun
  • But for this team, there’s building blocks for sure.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 3 Jan. 2026
  • How can the basic building blocks of our world move and change?
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 July 2024
  • The chance to draft a franchise building block is just too great.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2021
  • Protein is made up of amino acids, which are known as building blocks.
    — Karen Berger, Verywell Health, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Some of these types of molecules are the building blocks for life.
    — Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2025
  • He was obsessed with breakfast, a building block for a good day’s work.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Rosetta caught whiffs of glycine, one of the amino acid building blocks of proteins.
    — Elise Cutts, WIRED, 22 Dec. 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
  • Yes, most farm subsidies go to corn and soy, two building blocks of cheap junk food.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Collagen acts as a building block for healthy hair, skin, nails, bones, and joints.
    — ELLE, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Think of our edit as the building blocks to a perfect capsule fall wardrobe.
    — Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Overall, the Ravens put down a strong building block in the opener.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The Chandrayaan missions are seen as building blocks to that plan.
    — Manveena Suri and Swati Gupta, CNN, 4 Sep. 2019
  • And then, the next step after that would be making solid building blocks.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Of course, fitness is only one building block to greatness — in any sport.
    — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2022
  • For Tazewell, that choice became the building block for the rest of the costumes.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Proteins, a string of amino acid molecules, are the building blocks of life.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Glutamine is the most abundant amino acid (building block of protein) in the body.
    — Lindsey Desoto, Health, 15 July 2025
  • Tovar, signed through at least 2030, might be a building block.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 8 July 2025
  • These nanoglobules act as building blocks, and they’re held in a stable, liquid state.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
  • This portion of the spine sets the building block for a majority of your core.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 30 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • One thing that is clear is learning more about these obelisks could reveal more about the building blocks of life itself.
    — Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The building blocks for making it to the NFL are laid in high school.
    — Ashley Mahoney, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Achane and center Aaron Brewer as building blocks for the new regime.
    — Miami Herald, 19 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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

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