How to Use occlude in a Sentence

occlude

verb

• Too much ear wax can get occluded, or stuck, in the ear canal.
  — Madeleine Burry, Health, 3 Mar. 2023
• The basic pattern is to deny or occlude, then flip the script.
  — Paige L. Sweet, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2022
• Now the blackness has reached its apex, occluding all but a sliver of light.
  — Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• If an artery in your heart is occluded by a clot, pain may be felt in distant places such as your neck and your arm.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
• Johnson agrees that his home life is too important to be occluded by golf.
  — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 4 Apr. 2017
• 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
• In response, a whole industry has built up to help occlude and conceal hacking tools.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 16 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• Its front steps, which host a bronze statue of George Washington, are occluded, too.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 June 2023
• In front of an audience, the words shriek and occlude, like a closet full of bats that has unfortunately been opened.
  — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• 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
• The series begins with these stereotypes, then works to reveal the humanity that the stereotypes occlude.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2022
• But while their mouths may be smaller than wolves, their palates remain relatively large, which means that even mouth breathing is partly occluded.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• But none is delivered because the bulging (exercising) muscle occludes the artery.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• Woodpeckers have multiple adaptations for protecting their brains from injury, but occluding their jugular veins is not one of them.
  — Christie Aschwanden, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Even grief itself seems to be occluded or numbed by screen life, which retains the same quality of distortion, confusion and repetition.
  — Dionne Brand Anne Boyer, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• His once-collegial demeanor was occluded by an officious streak that eroded his reputation.
  — C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• There’s so much that has been occluded by the broad-brush depiction of the eighties as the awful age of Reagan, yuppies, shoulder pads, mullets, and synth-drums.
  — Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
• 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
• However, this approach isn’t ideal in agricultural settings, when branches are likely to occlude the visual sensors.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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