blotting out

Example Sentences

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Maybe we’ll really let things go so far that we’ll seriously need to consider blotting out the sky someday soon.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

From up in the space shuttle, in 1983, astronaut Sally Ride could see the pollution blotting out her Los Angeles hometown.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

He's previously said that his earliest memory was "a massive ship at the end of my street, towering over the houses and blotting out the sun".

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2025

Smoke from massive Canadian wildfires has been blowing thousands of miles across the U.S., blotting out the sun and shrouding many cities in a cough-inducing haze.

From Scientific American • Jun. 9, 2023

I folded it quickly, blotting out the single drop of melted snow which glistened on the yellowed page, and dropped it back into the drawer.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison