How to Use blackout in a Sentence

blackout

noun

• She keeps flashlights and candles handy in case of a blackout.
• He told his doctor he had been experiencing blackouts.
• The blackout stirred terror — and fury — across the Gaza Strip.
  — Yousur Al-Hlou, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• The Reddit blackout was supposed to be a two-day event.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 14 June 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
• There are no blackout dates, but the sale is not valid for travel on Fridays or Sundays.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2023
• But then the blackouts started—power cutting out for days on end.
  — Niamh Rowe, WIRED, 16 Oct. 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
• Wilson suggests blackout curtains or rugs to help absorb some of the noise.
  — Annie Midori Atherton, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
• Still, the blackout has also faced some backlash among other users.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 20 June 2023
• The attacks caused a blackout that cut off internet access for what was believed to be all of Gaza.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2023
• The sale is not valid on travel on Fridays or Sundays, but has no other blackout dates.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2023
• Kerosene heaters will warm a home during a power outage or blackout.
  — John Sass, Field & Stream, 3 Aug. 2023
• Chicago and Tampa will be broadcast on Fox and is subject to blackouts.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 17 Sep. 2023
• Most blackouts, says Wachter, are still caused by extreme weather.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024
• The sale excludes blackout dates on northbound travel only from Feb. 28 to March 3.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2024
• That’s good news, from an avoiding blackouts standpoint.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• The extent of the fighting was unclear because of a communications blackout in Gaza, the third since the start of the war nearly one month ago.
  — Andrés R. Martínez, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• The resulting blackouts killed more than 200 people statewide.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• That mismatch in supply and demand leads to blackouts when people need air conditioning the most to cope with the heat.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 26 June 2023
• While the effects of a solar flare—a radio blackout—take just eight minutes to travel from the sun at light speed, the effects of CMEs take a few days to arrive.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Rolling blackouts, sudden shutdowns: Extreme heat boils — and roils — the Middle East.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• Who wants to wake up some morning and discover a blackout has rendered his car a useless lump of metal?
  — John Fund, National Review, 28 Jan. 2024
• To keep from losing control of its electrical grid, TVA sought to reduce demand through the rolling blackouts.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 5 May 2023
• The new pass doesn’t include unexpected fees or blackout dates.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2023
• Southern California sports fans can cast their minds back to the six-year blackout of Dodgers games on most of the region’s pay-TV services starting in 2013.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Of course, people and the economy don’t regard power as a luxury and don’t like blackouts.
  — Andrew Follett, National Review, 21 Jan. 2024
• Since 2015, the number of major blackouts nationwide has more than doubled.
  — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 23 May 2023
• Many subreddits went dark Monday and the blackout is expected to last through Tuesday.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 12 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024