Examples of blot out in a Sentence
blotted out all evidence of tampering with the explosive device
bushes blotted out the shed from our view
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Urban skyglow has robbed many of us of our night skies and the vast majority of the population of the United States now lives in regions where the stars are mostly blotted out by excessive lighting.
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Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Childhood photos are also here, bearing the red time stamp from the 1990s and family members whose faces have been blotted out.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
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
That's because, then as now, people wanted sedatives to calm their anxieties, to blot out a cruel world, or simply to get a good night's sleep.
—Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2025
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Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Childhood photos are also here, bearing the red time stamp from the 1990s and family members whose faces have been blotted out.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
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
That's because, then as now, people wanted sedatives to calm their anxieties, to blot out a cruel world, or simply to get a good night's sleep.
—Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for blot out
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“Blot out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blot%20out. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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