blotted
Example Sentences
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Dozens queued on a pontoon at Fourka waiting to flee as smoke blotted out the sky over the resorts, according to images broadcast by ERT.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
When the helmsman said that it didn’t, Pericles asked, “so, where’s the difference between this and the eclipse, except that something bigger than my cape has blotted out the sun?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
In an alternative pre-history, we might imagine those early gaze-following dinos continuing to evolve, unmolested by giant asteroids that blotted out the sun.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024
As for Rose, bogeys on 17 and 18 blotted an otherwise excellent round.
From BBC ● May 19, 2024
It has been very interesting to me to find that all of our minds had blotted away many details of years in prison.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
