blotted out
Example Sentences
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When the helmsman said that it didn’t, Pericles asked, “so, where’s the difference between this and the eclipse, except that something bigger than my cape has blotted out the sun?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Until last Sunday, when black towers of smoke blotted out the sun.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
They even feared the apocalypse when the sun briefly was blotted out of sight.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2024
Its funding sidestepped public coffers to keep clear of the kind of censorship that had blotted out “América Tropical.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
He was a shrimp of a boy, about six years old, and one side of his face was blotted out by a mulberry-colored birthmark.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
