How to Use blot out in a Sentence

blot out

verb
  • Is the army coming, blotting out the sun?
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Chevalier is proof that we can’t be blotted out of the timeline.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • But the heavy-looking gray clouds that blot out the sun aren’t just the bane of beachgoers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
  • Nothing a shot of mezcal with the pucker of sour apple can’t blot out.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
  • One of the funnels of the great liner blotted out part of the sky, and its stern was high in the air.
    — Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
  • The soot from burning cities and forests will blot out the sun and cause a nuclear winter.
    — Annie Jacobsen, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The top halves of cars and semi trucks zipping past blotted out the horizon to the north and west.
    — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Green might feel the air swirl around him or the force of a gust pushing dark clouds into the sky, blotting out the blue.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
  • In daylight, the scene is a chaos of masts that fill the sky and blot out the apartment buildings across the water.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Even then, the fickle whims of the marine layer might blot out the sun and leave you shivering.
    — Frank Shyong Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
  • No one story supplants another, no brushstroke blots out the past.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • Tsunamis washed away coastlines, raging fires engulfed forests and dust and debris blotted out the sun for months.
    — Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Who wouldn’t want to blot out the rest of the big, bad world and spend this time fully engaged with all these welcoming strangers?
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Here, what animates the score is not lust that blots out reason or the redemptive power of love.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 13 May 2025
  • The Earth casts a shadow that can partially or totally blot out the moon.
    — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The rotors kicked up a thick cloud that blotted out the ground and sky, disorienting the pilot.
    — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2025
  • However, few appreciate how dark the night sky gets when the light of a full moon is blotted out for a few hours.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Second, the thick smoke cover will help blot out some sunlight and heat, which can improve air quality.
    — Emily Wilder, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Yet one blemish doesn’t blot out the moral urgency of what Al Sharpton stands for.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 June 2022
  • And the season ends on a note so tragic as to blot out early episodes’ every moment of levity.
    — Time, 14 June 2023
  • And Hanceville’s fate is as murky as the fog that pours in at night, blotting out buildings and blackening the road ahead.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026
  • My fleets blot out the sun and bathe their world in ominous darkness, all in a lead-up to the activation of my deadly weapon.
    — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • As shown in the video, Anderson used a paint roller to in an effort to blot out the yellow letters with black paint.
    — Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2020
  • But nothing, not even baseball, would blot out the image of the ambulance taking my father away from me.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Kepler spots faraway worlds by looking for dips in light produced as planets cross stars’ faces and briefly blot out a fraction of starlight.
    — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The moon will line up perfectly between the Earth and the sun at midday, blotting out the sunlight.
    — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Big enough to credibly watch The Good Place, small enough to talk on without blotting out the sun.
    — David Pierce, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Mercury may also be difficult to catch without special equipment, as the sun’s glare can blot out the planet.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • From an earthling’s perspective, the moon will be too small to blot out the sun entirely, leaving fiery tendrils at the edge of a deep black disk.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
  • By then, the fire had burned more than a thousand acres, and the winds were starting to whip; smoke blotted out the setting sun, and the power in the area was down.
    — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025

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