blotting out

Example Sentences

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He's previously said that his earliest memory was "a massive ship at the end of my street, towering over the houses and blotting out the sun".

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2025

Others worried about sunspots blotting out the Sun, the Moon crashing into Earth, worldwide floods, global pandemics that sweep across the continents, and even comets directly colliding with our planet.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2023

Wildfire smoke engulfed the iconic skyline of New York, blotting out the Empire State Building in a dystopian orange haze.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2023

Smoke from massive Canadian wildfires has been blowing thousands of miles across the U.S., blotting out the sun and shrouding many cities in a cough-inducing haze.

From Scientific American • Jun. 9, 2023

I can well imagine how he must have looked that day, framed by the doorway of the vehicle, his dark, severe presence quite blotting out the effect of the gentle Hertfordshire scenery behind him.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro