blotted

Example Sentences

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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

Until last Sunday, when black towers of smoke blotted out the sun.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 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 blotted out the horizon, the far dips and heaves, the grasses, the pond, and finally her own frost heave.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George