blocked-out
Example Sentences
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The work - of two elephants poking their heads out of blocked-out windows - was painted on the side of a house in Chelsea, before it was defaced with white stripes.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2024
In Baghdad, I saw photographs taken that night showing the blocked-out bricks of cash on the scanning machine and the angry Qataris standing in the V.I.P. lounge, surrounded by black duffel bags.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
A roar went up and the blocked-out fans craned their heads to see the tee, hoping that maybe, just maybe, it was Woods.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2012
Maybe Margo felt comfortable there because Margo the person lived like that all the time: in an abandoned room with blocked-out windows, the only light pouring in through holes in the roof.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
The only trace surviving of these twelve Apostles is the huge blocked-out S. Matteo, now in the courtyard of the Accademia.
From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington
