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
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
Its funding sidestepped public coffers to keep clear of the kind of censorship that had blotted out “América Tropical.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 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
