How to Use blackout in a Sentence

blackout

1 of 2 noun
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  • She keeps flashlights and candles handy in case of a blackout.
  • He told his doctor he had been experiencing blackouts.
  • In recent months some provinces have had to put up with blackouts lasting as long as 20 hours per day.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Texas suffered a deadly blackout for days last year after a winter storm caused power plants and natural gas wells to freeze.
    — James Osborne, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Dec. 2022
  • This partial blackout has alarmed French server Constance Ernwein.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2022
  • With enough juice and the right setup, these modern marvels can keep emergency food kits cold in the backcountry for weeks, or power your entire house during a blackout.
    — Kurt Spurlock, Men's Health, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The initial contact occasionally jolted me out of a blackout, the impact searing into my palms and knees and sending a message to my brain to get up.
    — Time, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Mission control can’t stay in contact with a crew the whole way down; the surrounding plasma produces a brief communications blackout.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Besides powering tools at a work-site, people can even power their homes during a blackout — which is also possible with Ford’s hybrid trucks.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 13 Dec. 2022
  • While some Germans are readying for an eventual blackout or gas stoppage, still others are focusing on ways to conserve energy.
    — Melissa Eddy Valentin Goppel, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The mobilization efforts may explain why Brittany hasn’t experienced a blackout in decades.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The flare already has caused a temporary shortwave radio blackout above large parts of the Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii.
    — Anthony Franze, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • At the same time, according to Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, head of the board of Ukrenergo, a complete blackout of the whole country is unlikely.
    — Karina Zaiets, USA Today, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The blackout stirred terror — and fury — across the Gaza Strip.
    — Yousur Al-Hlou, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • In some districts, the blackout went on for more than a week.
    — Parth M.n., WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The Reddit blackout was supposed to be a two-day event.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 14 June 2023
  • Singh was still on the run as of late Sunday, and the 4G blackout remained in effect.
    — Shams Irfan, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023
  • When the blackout struck, Ms. Hasson was getting a blowout at the hotel, and the blow dryer turned off.
    — Sadiba Hasan, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The bridge collapse was caught on video, where viewers could see a total blackout on the ship.
    — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • After all, the blackouts were a first for TVA in its 90-year history.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 8 Mar. 2023
  • There are no blackout dates, but the sale is not valid for travel on Fridays or Sundays.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2023
  • At the same time, the Fed has entered into what is known as a blackout period.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • But then the blackouts started—power cutting out for days on end.
    — Niamh Rowe, WIRED, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Each room has a great view of the city and includes perks like rainfall showers and blackout curtains.
    — Joe Niehaus, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The Dali suffers a second electrical blackout, this time about 0.2 miles from the bridge.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2024
  • The points can be used for any open seat and do not expire or have blackout dates, but passengers must claim the points via a code in the email by March 31.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Here is a complete list of what to do before, during and after a blackout.
    — Grace Tooheystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The footage was widely distributed, and the news blackout was broken.
    — Matt Viser and Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Other upgrades may include a trophy room and blackout shades to sleep when the sun is still out.
    — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Nigeria was supported in the war by Britain, which had once ruled it as a colony, and the two countries tried to maintain a news blackout.
    — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
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black out

2 of 2 verb
  • The network was blacked out to DirecTV subscribers during that period due to an ongoing carriage dispute that ended last weekend.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Tonight the whites have chased all the blacks out of the area.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The names of those who filed the complaints were blacked out.
    — Janelle Walker, Elgin Courier-News, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Just 600 light years from Earth, a dark gash blacks out the stars.
    — Mika McKinnon, Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2018
  • But there was a catch—all the windows on the cars were blacked out.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2018
  • But notice how, when these guys are in the ring, the rest of the crowd blacks out around them.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The driver, a man from New York, blacked out at the wheel, police said.
    — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
  • But go to a Halloween store and get some gray to put in your hair and black out your teeth.
    — Vulture, 28 Apr. 2022
  • To black out, then all of the sudden be told that two young children were killed ...
    — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Bony appears to have blacked out his Nikes around the back, choosing to leave a bit of shine around the front to catch the eye.
    — SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • In the building a series of windows blacked out a number of the squares.
    — Dave Barry and Tom Shroder, miamiherald, 4 Mar. 2018
  • What differed between the building and the graphic were which of the white squares in the grid were blacked out.
    — Dave Barry and Tom Shroder, miamiherald, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The Petersons then went back to their canopy and both blacked out for about two hours.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2018
  • Instead, those who have been blacked out will have to stream the game online.
    — The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The game will not be blacked out in the Los Angeles market.
    — Jorge Castillo, latimes.com, 19 June 2019
  • Union games will be blacked out, but there’s an option for the team to sign a deal to reverse that.
    — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Nex said the girls started beating Nex and then Nex blacked out.
    — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • As the film comes to a close, that final image of a child is blacked out with paint, and the credits run.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The pass grants a year of access to both Legoland and the Legoland Water Park with no black out (or block out) dates.
    — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The name of the child was blacked out in the copy obtained by The Associated Press.
    — Ken Ritter, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2018
  • Then in September 2019, Popham went on a bike ride, got lost and blacked out.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • If this were a White Out game I’d be considered a black out by the 4th quarter.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Price said the two sides have agreed to black out the barcodes on the envelopes to prevent the mail sorter from picking them up.
    — James Barragán, Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2020
  • In most instances in the documents, Evan’s name is blacked out.
    — Laura Bauer and Hunter Woodall, kansascity, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Her modus operandi is to pretend to black out at a bar and wait for a man to offer to walk her home.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Benedict said the girls pounced and were beating them up when Benedict blacked out.
    — USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The document, which blacked out all students' names, says at least 29 people were in the room at the time of the shooting.
    — CBS News, 21 June 2019
  • Just as in the Bochicchio case, the man had brought zip ties and the same kind of goggles, blacked out to prevent her from seeing.
    — Juan Ortega, www.sun-sentinel.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Grieving the death of his wife, Molly, Robicheaux falls off the wagon one night and blacks out.
    — Adam Woog, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2018
  • The first black out performance took place earlier this month.
    — Caroline Frost, Deadline, 28 July 2024

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