How to Use occlude in a Sentence
occlude
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Too much ear wax can get occluded, or stuck, in the ear canal.
—Madeleine Burry, Health, 3 Mar. 2023
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The basic pattern is to deny or occlude, then flip the script.
—Paige L. Sweet, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2022
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The modest pressure occludes veins that drain the muscle, but does not occlude the artery that feeds it.
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 12 May 2022
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The modest pressure occludes veins that drain the muscle, but does not occlude the artery that feeds it.
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 12 May 2022
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But about midway through the thirty-five minute show, the fireworks became occluded by their own smoke.
—Osita Nwanevu, The New Yorker, 6 July 2019
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The only problem: Roads can be occluded by buildings, trees, or even street signs.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2020
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The key is using heavyweights of at least 60% of max to assault the muscle and occlude arterial blood flow.
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 12 May 2022
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Johnson agrees that his home life is too important to be occluded by golf.
—Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 4 Apr. 2017
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From the gallery, our view of him was similarly occluded.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
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Its front steps, which host a bronze statue of George Washington, are occluded, too.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 June 2023
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In response, a whole industry has built up to help occlude and conceal hacking tools.
—Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 16 May 2018
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Her grace is occluded by her preschool motor skills, but the talent for winning a crowd is evident.
—Jamie Lauren Keiles, Time, 22 Aug. 2019
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Next, the researchers tried an office in which all the Wi-Fi transmitters were occluded by furniture or walls.
—Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 24 July 2017
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The series begins with these stereotypes, then works to reveal the humanity that the stereotypes occlude.
—New York Times, 13 May 2022
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This would encase the device and occlude the tubes, as researchers described in a 2001 study published in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
—Jennifer Block, chicagotribune.com, 26 July 2017
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The more powerful headsets must be tethered by thick cables to PCs or consoles, which can tangle up players’ legs when these rigs occlude their view of the real world.
—Nick Wingfield, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2017
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Their smaller size means that planets occlude a relatively larger fraction of the light from the star, making them easier to spot.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2018
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This is a major problem in strawberry fields and apple and peach orchards, where fruits are easily bruised and can often be occluded by leaves.
—Jennifer Strong and Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
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The sunstones of legend could identify the sun’s location even if it was occluded by clouds; however, no such stones have been found in the handful of Viking shipwrecks that exist.
—Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 3 Apr. 2018
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Auden comes to think of our sinfulness as but part of the human story, and to see that a single-minded focus on it can diminish or even occlude gratitude.
—Alan Jacobs, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
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The clear blue autumn sky was occluded by low ceilings and heavy beams; in places, early evening sunlight shone between the unplastered laths of the home’s interior walls, travelling from one room to the next.
—Geoff Manaugh, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2019
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In the first, a patient who from birth had one eye occluded — from a cataract, for example, or from rare eyelid problems — but then had that anatomical problem removed still ended up with one blind or nearly blind eye.
—Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
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First, obese patients may completely occlude the opening of the toilet, and second, improper use of a vacuum toilet may also contribute to the creation of suction.
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2011
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Darkness barreled in, and, for a terrible minute, the moon entirely occluded the light of the sun — except for its dancing orange corona, the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere that is usually hidden by its powerful light.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
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But the prying eyes of commercial banks looking to occlude bank accounts with incriminating evidence of crypto transactions scare traders more.
—Grace Akinosun, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2021
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One of the complications, which happens in about 5 percent of cases, is development of scar tissue called a contracture or stricture that can occlude the urine channel again, requiring more operations.
—Dr. Jared G. Heiner, idahostatesman, 6 May 2018
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Still, these were sudden, cataclysmic events—sheets of flame, boiling rivers, melting buildings—and thus easily mythologized; their origins were occluded by fear, wonder, and the conviction that fire was God’s cleansing punishment.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
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His once-collegial demeanor was occluded by an officious streak that eroded his reputation.
—C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
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The Weather Channel plans to tally at least 188 consecutive live hours on Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath into this weekend — and the network’s coverage is not just for people fascinated by eye walls and occluded fronts.
—David Bauder, The Seattle Times, 29 Aug. 2017
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By removing inhibitions and consequences, the park holds a mirror up to our faces, revealing truths that are otherwise occluded by society's programming.
—Sandra Upson, WIRED, 11 June 2018
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