The fleet almost blocked the river, and the tents and horse-lines of the soldiers covered the land for a mile along either bank.

Their fleet had been successfully blocking the Watraii ships from any action until this moment.

Argyrus and his Normans tried to surround Otranto, but the catepan's fleet blocked them.

A fleet of small boats, loaded mostly with women and children, blocked the way.

A Swedish fleet of 28 ships blocked the harbor, preventing resupply by sea.

Just inside the fence, a fleet of huge buses, arrayed nose to tail and covered with logos for Rockstar games, blocked any view within.

The Athenian army moved to capture Syracuse while the larger fleet of Athenian ships blocked the approach to the city from the sea.

If Edmund's fleet hasn't yet blocked it, maybe he is planning to take a sea voyage.

Somewhere ahead of him, the fleet of galleys was blocking the sea, and though the slaves could not yet know it, their rebellion was ended.

The Northern fleet blocked the Finnish military base at Petsamo through the Winter War of 1939 and 1940.