break a blockade

Examples (10)

• They attempted to break the blockade by using submarines.
• Humanitarian aid ships are trying to break the naval blockade to deliver supplies.
• During the war, smugglers risked everything to break the enemy's economic blockade.
• It will require a concerted effort from allied nations to break the blockade.
• The protestors were determined to break the police blockade surrounding the parliament building.
• A fleet of small, fast boats was dispatched to break the blockade under the cover of darkness.
• After weeks of siege, the city's last hope was that their allies could break the blockade.
• The diplomatic mission failed, leaving military action as the only way to break the blockade.
• Historians still debate the strategies used to successfully break the blockade of the port.
• The blockade was eventually broken not by force, but by a change in political leadership.