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.
  • The blackout stirred terror — and fury — across the Gaza Strip.
    — Yousur Al-Hlou, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The Reddit blackout was supposed to be a two-day event.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 14 June 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
  • There are no blackout dates, but the sale is not valid for travel on Fridays or Sundays.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2023
  • But then the blackouts started—power cutting out for days on end.
    — Niamh Rowe, WIRED, 16 Oct. 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
  • Wilson suggests blackout curtains or rugs to help absorb some of the noise.
    — Annie Midori Atherton, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Still, the blackout has also faced some backlash among other users.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 20 June 2023
  • The attacks caused a blackout that cut off internet access for what was believed to be all of Gaza.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The sale is not valid on travel on Fridays or Sundays, but has no other blackout dates.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Kerosene heaters will warm a home during a power outage or blackout.
    — John Sass, Field & Stream, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Chicago and Tampa will be broadcast on Fox and is subject to blackouts.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Most blackouts, says Wachter, are still caused by extreme weather.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The sale excludes blackout dates on northbound travel only from Feb. 28 to March 3.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2024
  • That’s good news, from an avoiding blackouts standpoint.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The extent of the fighting was unclear because of a communications blackout in Gaza, the third since the start of the war nearly one month ago.
    — Andrés R. Martínez, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The resulting blackouts killed more than 200 people statewide.
    — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • That mismatch in supply and demand leads to blackouts when people need air conditioning the most to cope with the heat.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 26 June 2023
  • While the effects of a solar flare—a radio blackout—take just eight minutes to travel from the sun at light speed, the effects of CMEs take a few days to arrive.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Rolling blackouts, sudden shutdowns: Extreme heat boils — and roils — the Middle East.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Who wants to wake up some morning and discover a blackout has rendered his car a useless lump of metal?
    — John Fund, National Review, 28 Jan. 2024
  • To keep from losing control of its electrical grid, TVA sought to reduce demand through the rolling blackouts.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 5 May 2023
  • The new pass doesn’t include unexpected fees or blackout dates.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Southern California sports fans can cast their minds back to the six-year blackout of Dodgers games on most of the region’s pay-TV services starting in 2013.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Of course, people and the economy don’t regard power as a luxury and don’t like blackouts.
    — Andrew Follett, National Review, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Since 2015, the number of major blackouts nationwide has more than doubled.
    — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 23 May 2023
  • Many subreddits went dark Monday and the blackout is expected to last through Tuesday.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 12 June 2023
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black out

2 of 2 verb
  • Tonight the whites have chased all the blacks out of the area.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • 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
  • But go to a Halloween store and get some gray to put in your hair and black out your teeth.
    — Vulture, 28 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The woman in the Everlane trench coat did not black out this weekend.
    — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
  • But the next two sentences were blacked out by the City Attorney’s Office.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2023
  • Which means many of these subscribers have been blacked out of CBS programming.
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2019
  • The report said the driver and passenger were a woman and her child, but their names were blacked out.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
  • If not, get a sharpie and black out the swoosh or any other company logo.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The non-sellout meant that, per NFL rules at the time, the game was blacked out on Baltimore television.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Even when they’re released, certain parts of the discussion are blacked out.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 29 June 2023
  • As a result, some blocks of text remain blacked out and shielded from public view.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 6 July 2023
  • More: Detroit Lions may be blacked out on TV again for some viewers.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2019
  • One media outlet in Cincinnati told that story, but blacked out Fox’s face, altered his voice and didn’t use the name of the bar.
    — Noelle Zielinski, Cincinnati.com, 24 June 2019
  • The bus was all blacked out, of course, but that didn’t stop people around me from rushing to the sidewalk to hurl their vitriol and flip their birds.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Stephanie revealed in an interview that Grace had been having a headache, and seemed to black out for a moment.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2019
  • As her teammate assured Richards the ambulance was on its way, Richards blacked out again.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Details about her health condition were blacked out in the filing.
    — NBC News, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Meyers subscribes to the league's streaming service, MLB.tv, but all Pirates games — home and away — are blacked out in his area.
    — Nigel Chiwaya, NBC News, 18 July 2019
  • As a result, many police forces blacked out leave and vacation time for the New Year’s weekend.
    — oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2019

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