How To Use Blotted out In A Sentence
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Thick cloud blotted out the view.
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One remembers the fellow visitor off to the right but cannot see them, as they are blotted out by the strobe's afterimage.
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four-o'clock tea" rather blotted out one of the prettiest features of the English tea, that of the graceful garment the _tea gown_.
Manners and Social Usages
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The absolutely lowest moment of the series was in, I think, an episode for which the title has been blotted out of my memory.
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Images on the screens were often blotted out when people near the projector stood up.
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The sky was a dome of darkness over their heads, the stars blotted out by a mass of thick, dark clouds.
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Schools of snappers and pompano blotted out the sparkling sun, while trevally and fusiliers whipped about in a frenzy.
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Looking up into the mid water region presented a warm green glow which modulated in brightness as the sun was blotted out by frequent clouds.
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The hill was blotted out by mist.
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Thick white smoke blotted out the sun.
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By the time I reached the small town of Pinedale the blue sky had been blotted out by ugly, sulphurous yellow.
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Rolling clouds of black smoke blotted out the sky while brilliant sheaths of flame slithered out of every window.
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Thou wottest well that I am a man now shotten in years, who hath never been blessed with a son, a sight to cool his eyes; so I know that my kingdom shall pass away to the stranger in blood and my name and memory will be blotted out amongst men.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The hill was blotted out by mist.
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Pouring from the top of the candle flame, billows of black smoke blotted out many stars.
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An ‘impact winter’ would follow in which the Sun's life-giving light would be blotted out for years by the debris thrown up by the explosion.
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The sky was a dome of darkness over their heads, the stars blotted out by a mass of thick, dark clouds.
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The problem is that the sun would be blotted out.
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A clear sky, but a cloud of gloom blotted out the bright sun of good cheer.
Times, Sunday Times
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A wedge of black cloud drifted across the moon and blotted out its sliver of light.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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An ‘impact winter’ would follow in which the Sun's life-giving light would be blotted out for years by the debris thrown up by the explosion.
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About the time the three climbers were halfway down, clouds blotted out the sun.
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This is another case in which the profit motive had conflicted with, and indeed blotted out, the object of the exercise, which was to obtain a supply of jurymen.
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The video screens were blotted out by the clouds, displaying only swirling mists and droplets of moisture punctuated by a flash as lightning rippled through a cloud.
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It blotted out memories of that floodlit game there last season when they beat us before it got dark enough to turn on the lights.
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The pair could be seen talking in the front of a vehicle, though the policeman's face was blotted out.
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About the time the three climbers were halfway down, clouds blotted out the sun.
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Plenty of prisoners only go on heroin after they get inside, rationally concluding that a long stretch in a vile environment is best blotted out.
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Neighbours complained that the state of the house and garden depressed property prices and even made it impossible to grow vegetables in gardens because the sun was blotted out.
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Thick cloud blotted out the view.
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But any glimmer of a miraculous comeback was blotted out by England's sixth try.
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The hill was blotted out by mist.
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It was so big that it blotted out the sun.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those ones where the sky is completely grey except for a bright spot where the sun is blotted out and the rain comes and goes.
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About the time the three climbers were halfway down, clouds blotted out the sun.
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Secondly, Whether a man be bound to prefer the glory of God before his own eternal happiness, as Moses and St. Paul seem to have done; the one in being content to have his name blotted out of the book of life, the other to be anathema from Christ, for the salvation of Israel?
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 09.
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All these were blotted out by a grotesque and terrible nightmare brood — frowsy, shuffling creatures from the pavements of Whitechapel, gin-bloated hags of the stews, and all the vast hell's following of harpies, vile-mouthed and filthy, that under the guise of monstrous female form prey upon sailors, the scrapings of the ports, the scum and slime of the human pit.
Chapter 1
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We have repented for the unbelief and our sins are blotted out.
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About the time the three climbers were halfway down, clouds blotted out the sun.
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The jackhammers start at 7:30, shortly after the morning sun is blotted out by enormous pick-up trucks the workers drive.
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Dark, inky black clouds swathed over the sun and blotted out the sky like a curtain of stormy nightfall.
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By the time I reached the small town of Pinedale the blue sky had been blotted out by ugly, sulphurous yellow.
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Nor do the planets escape alignment with the Moon: because they occupy a restricted band about the ecliptic, they, too, are frequently blotted out for a brief time.
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Thick white smoke blotted out the sun.
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Within the hour, the entire Moon was blotted out by Earth's shadow.
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A clear sky, but a cloud of gloom blotted out the bright sun of good cheer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rolling clouds of black smoke blotted out the sky while brilliant sheaths of flame slithered out of every window.
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_Dip and lift, dip and lift_, till sky and earth and river were blotted out, and consciousness dwindled to a thin line, -- a streak of foam, fringed on the one hand with sneering rock, on the other with snarling water.
A Daughter of the Snows
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A clear sky, but a cloud of gloom blotted out the bright sun of good cheer.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the last 16 minutes blotted out all the blundering and turned this into an unforgettable classic.
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The moon blotted out the sun.
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The red clouds above turned black, and the sun was blotted out even though it was noon.
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Thick white smoke blotted out the sun.
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Neighbours complained that the state of the house and garden depressed property prices and even made it impossible to grow vegetables in gardens because the sun was blotted out.
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The sky above them was a dark milky black, the stars blotted out by the snow clouds.
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Go or be blotted out as abominable in mine sight!
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That is not to say that his memory was blotted out.
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A dark cloud suddenly blotted out the sun.
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Thick white smoke blotted out the sun.
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Shouting from up ahead and the sun was blotted out for a few seconds as we passed through a gatehouse.
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The moon blotted out the sun.
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The name agreed upon for the child was Eugenie Victoria, but that afternoon Melanie unwittingly bestowed a name that clung, even as “Pittypat” had blotted out all memory of Sarah Jane.
Gone with the Wind
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Hadrian (whose bones may they be ground, and his name blotted out) once asked Rabbi Joshua ben
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
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These things she enjoined us not; but desired only to have her name commemorated at Thy Altar, which she had served without intermission of one day: whence she knew that holy Sacrifice to be dispensed, by which the hand-writing that was against us is blotted out, 59 through which the enemy was triumphed over, who summing up our offences, and seeking what to lay to our charge, found nothing in Him, 60 in Whom we conquer.
The Ninth Book
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With a scream of pain she twisted from his grasp and blotted out the candle.
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Once they were secluded within the white silk, she wove metapsychic screens and blotted out the carnival hurly-burly.
The Golden Torc
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Just then the lavender sunlight was blotted out of the sky as the rain came pouring down in thick, heavy sheets.
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His life was threatened and his name blotted out as far as the impeachers could do it, and the impression prevails generally among my enemies that the Shoffner act was unconstitutional.
Memoirs of W. W. Holden,
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Obviously what happened was that the image of the cross being almost blotted out by the darkness was triggering superstitious thoughts.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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It was so big that it blotted out the sun.
Times, Sunday Times
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For three days, dense black clouds of smoke blotted out the sun over a wide stretch of the Italian coast.
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Oh, and when I saw you so sunken, so hardened, exulting in vice as in a glory -- bravo and partner in a gambler's hell -- or, worse still, living on the plunder of miserable women, even the almsman of that vile Desmarets -- my son, my son, my lost Lizzy's son blotted out of my world for ever!
What Will He Do with It? — Complete
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A dark cloud suddenly blotted out the sun.
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We remember these words later, when the sun of reason is 'collied,' blackened and blotted out in total eclipse.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
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A stage-a melee-heaving bodies-and then a huge hand filled the screen and blotted out everything for an instant.
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A dark cloud suddenly blotted out the sun.
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Jade grew cold as the sun was blotted out from behind the clouds and everything grew dark.
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Lighthouse flashed its warning in through our open bedroom window all the night long and made us dream of wicked and unworldly monster automobiles bearing down upon us with a great blazing _phare_ which blotted out all else.
The Automobilist Abroad
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It's hard to decide which is wreckier-- a wal-mart cake with a horrible correction/misspelling I mean, once you see that round confetti, your expectations drop or a decently decorated cake with a name blotted out in a DOUBLE LAYER of frosting applied with the cake icing tip!
There, I Fixed It
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But tonight the stars are blotted out by a huge searchlight arcing across the sky from the south.
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Thus those voting tactically under AV will in practice number approximately zero, compared with the millions of voters faced with the choice between a tactical vote and a wasted one under FPTP.Mike WrightProfessor of operational research, Lancaster University• The politics of the referendum No to AV campaign neutrality under spotlight over Tory party funding, 3 May has successfully blotted out the psephology.
Letters: Playing the game to put an end to tactical voting
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Look how they keep on killing us, those people, may their names be blotted out.
