How to Use blot out in a Sentence

blot out

verb

• The smoke blotted out the sun and the sky turned ocher.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
• Nation/World The smoke was starting to blot out the sun.
  — Claire Galofaro and Matt Sedensky, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 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
• 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
• Chevalier is proof that we can’t be blotted out of the timeline.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• The soot from burning cities and forests will blot out the sun and cause a nuclear winter.
  — Annie Jacobsen, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024
• And, in April 2024, a total solar eclipse will blot out the sun midday for many in the United States.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 24 Mar. 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
• At least for a while, the news of the charges will blot out any attention that Trump’s challengers might receive.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• The moon will line up perfectly between the Earth and the sun at midday, blotting out the sunlight.
  — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Yet one blemish doesn’t blot out the moral urgency of what Al Sharpton stands for.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 June 2022
• Messages, posters, and portraits, ranging from loving to enraged, almost blot out the view of the White House across the way.
  — Ashraf Khalil, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2020
• 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
• The idea is to blot out the light of a star and zero in on a small planet, right next to it in the sky and 10 billion times fainter (at visible wavelengths) than it.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2013
• 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
• The city’s residents are used to a blanket of smog that blots out the sky and heralds the arrival of the Hindu festival of Diwali.
  — Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 8 Nov. 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
• The moon blots out the sun — either partially or totally.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024
• And the season ends on a note so tragic as to blot out early episodes’ every moment of levity.
  — Time, 14 June 2023
• For nine years, Kepler stared at the stars and watched for the brief twinkles produced when orbiting planets blot out a portion of their star’s light.
  — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 2 Nov. 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
• 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
• The sun is blotted out by a new 91-foot tall, stadium-like condominium that curves around the north end of the island and shrouds Gordon’s Building 3 in shadow part of the day.
  — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Smoke from wildfires raging in Canada had poured over the border, blotting out skyscrapers and making the air dangerous to breathe.
  — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• The influx of these aerosols can actually blot out sunlight and affect Earth's climate.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2020
• Astronomers, peering deep into the darkened skies, were among the very first to raise an alarm that our own artificial lights were beginning to blot out the nighttime views.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
• The sun turned blood-red or was all but blotted out, disappearing along with the city skyline; the sky turned gray, or sepia, or eerily tangerine, and ash floated down like snow.
  — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 31 Aug 2024