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

He has already blotted his copybook with the inquiry's chair Sir Wyn Williams over a £450,000 bonus he was due to receive.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024

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

Also, I have blotted out some names as lam afraid of getting innocent people in trouble.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez