blotting out
Example Sentences
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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
Others worried about sunspots blotting out the Sun, the Moon crashing into Earth, worldwide floods, global pandemics that sweep across the continents, and even comets directly colliding with our planet.
From Salon • Oct. 8, 2023
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
The tree came towards her blotting out all memory of her ever having lived.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
