How to Use blackout in a Sentence

blackout

1 of 2 noun

• She keeps flashlights and candles handy in case of a blackout.
• He told his doctor he had been experiencing blackouts.
• In recent months some provinces have had to put up with blackouts lasting as long as 20 hours per day.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
• Texas suffered a deadly blackout for days last year after a winter storm caused power plants and natural gas wells to freeze.
  — James Osborne, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Dec. 2022
• This partial blackout has alarmed French server Constance Ernwein.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2022
• With enough juice and the right setup, these modern marvels can keep emergency food kits cold in the backcountry for weeks, or power your entire house during a blackout.
  — Kurt Spurlock, Men's Health, 14 Dec. 2022
• The initial contact occasionally jolted me out of a blackout, the impact searing into my palms and knees and sending a message to my brain to get up.
  — Time, 28 Dec. 2022
• Mission control can’t stay in contact with a crew the whole way down; the surrounding plasma produces a brief communications blackout.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2022
• Besides powering tools at a work-site, people can even power their homes during a blackout — which is also possible with Ford’s hybrid trucks.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 13 Dec. 2022
• While some Germans are readying for an eventual blackout or gas stoppage, still others are focusing on ways to conserve energy.
  — Melissa Eddy Valentin Goppel, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2022
• The mobilization efforts may explain why Brittany hasn’t experienced a blackout in decades.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
• The flare already has caused a temporary shortwave radio blackout above large parts of the Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii.
  — Anthony Franze, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
• At the same time, according to Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, head of the board of Ukrenergo, a complete blackout of the whole country is unlikely.
  — Karina Zaiets, USA Today, 24 Dec. 2022
• The blackout stirred terror — and fury — across the Gaza Strip.
  — Yousur Al-Hlou, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• In some districts, the blackout went on for more than a week.
  — Parth M.n., WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023
• The Reddit blackout was supposed to be a two-day event.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 14 June 2023
• Singh was still on the run as of late Sunday, and the 4G blackout remained in effect.
  — Shams Irfan, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023
• When the blackout struck, Ms. Hasson was getting a blowout at the hotel, and the blow dryer turned off.
  — Sadiba Hasan, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• The bridge collapse was caught on video, where viewers could see a total blackout on the ship.
  — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• After all, the blackouts were a first for TVA in its 90-year history.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 8 Mar. 2023
• There are no blackout dates, but the sale is not valid for travel on Fridays or Sundays.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2023
• At the same time, the Fed has entered into what is known as a blackout period.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• But then the blackouts started—power cutting out for days on end.
  — Niamh Rowe, WIRED, 16 Oct. 2023
• Each room has a great view of the city and includes perks like rainfall showers and blackout curtains.
  — Joe Niehaus, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2024
• The Dali suffers a second electrical blackout, this time about 0.2 miles from the bridge.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2024
• The points can be used for any open seat and do not expire or have blackout dates, but passengers must claim the points via a code in the email by March 31.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2023
• Here is a complete list of what to do before, during and after a blackout.
  — Grace Tooheystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• The footage was widely distributed, and the news blackout was broken.
  — Matt Viser and Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
• Other upgrades may include a trophy room and blackout shades to sleep when the sun is still out.
  — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2023
• Nigeria was supported in the war by Britain, which had once ruled it as a colony, and the two countries tried to maintain a news blackout.
  — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023

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black out

2 of 2 verb

• Tonight the whites have chased all the blacks out of the area.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• The names of those who filed the complaints were blacked out.
  — Janelle Walker, Elgin Courier-News, 27 Mar. 2018
• Just 600 light years from Earth, a dark gash blacks out the stars.
  — Mika McKinnon, Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2018
• But there was a catch—all the windows on the cars were blacked out.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2018
• But notice how, when these guys are in the ring, the rest of the crowd blacks out around them.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2023
• The driver, a man from New York, blacked out at the wheel, police said.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
• But go to a Halloween store and get some gray to put in your hair and black out your teeth.
  — Vulture, 28 Apr. 2022
• To black out, then all of the sudden be told that two young children were killed ...
  — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2024
• Bony appears to have blacked out his Nikes around the back, choosing to leave a bit of shine around the front to catch the eye.
  — SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• In the building a series of windows blacked out a number of the squares.
  — Dave Barry and Tom Shroder, miamiherald, 4 Mar. 2018
• What differed between the building and the graphic were which of the white squares in the grid were blacked out.
  — Dave Barry and Tom Shroder, miamiherald, 4 Mar. 2018
• The Petersons then went back to their canopy and both blacked out for about two hours.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2018
• Instead, those who have been blacked out will have to stream the game online.
  — The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2023
• The game will not be blacked out in the Los Angeles market.
  — Jorge Castillo, latimes.com, 19 June 2019
• Union games will be blacked out, but there’s an option for the team to sign a deal to reverse that.
  — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Nex said the girls started beating Nex and then Nex blacked out.
  — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2024
• As the film comes to a close, that final image of a child is blacked out with paint, and the credits run.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 30 Oct. 2019
• The pass grants a year of access to both Legoland and the Legoland Water Park with no black out (or block out) dates.
  — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• The name of the child was blacked out in the copy obtained by The Associated Press.
  — Ken Ritter, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2018
• Then in September 2019, Popham went on a bike ride, got lost and blacked out.
  — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• If this were a White Out game I’d be considered a black out by the 4th quarter.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 27 Oct. 2022
• Price said the two sides have agreed to black out the barcodes on the envelopes to prevent the mail sorter from picking them up.
  — James Barragán, Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2020
• In most instances in the documents, Evan’s name is blacked out.
  — Laura Bauer and Hunter Woodall, kansascity, 5 Mar. 2018
• Her modus operandi is to pretend to black out at a bar and wait for a man to offer to walk her home.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 22 Dec. 2020
• Benedict said the girls pounced and were beating them up when Benedict blacked out.
  — USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
• The document, which blacked out all students' names, says at least 29 people were in the room at the time of the shooting.
  — CBS News, 21 June 2019
• Just as in the Bochicchio case, the man had brought zip ties and the same kind of goggles, blacked out to prevent her from seeing.
  — Juan Ortega, www.sun-sentinel.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Grieving the death of his wife, Molly, Robicheaux falls off the wagon one night and blacks out.
  — Adam Woog, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2018
• The first black out performance took place earlier this month.
  — Caroline Frost, Deadline, 28 July 2024
• The London Eras Tour stop coincided with the 7-year anniversary of when Swift blacked out all of her social media accounts and websites.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024