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    blackout example sentences

    blackout


    1. We recommend a news blackout until such time that the professionals advise otherwise


    2. The door was fully closed; and Carson went to check on the blackout


    3. He was on the verge of blackout


    4. I could find my way there in a blackout


    5. We will be under total communications blackout until we return


    6. “Maybe when the blackout is over you can come back and listen to it with me,” Noah said


    7. They sat on the couch together and exchanged stories of what they had been doing when the blackout had started


    8. The blackout was over and the cause was still under investigation


    9. The blackout had given Noah an unfair advantage


    10. And how guilty she had felt after the blackout

    11. She remembered how alive the darkness had felt, when she was alone in Sierra’s flat during the blackout


    12. ‘Damn, I was beginning to shit bricks sitting here in the dark, thinking the entire ship had a blackout


    13. That pilot has to be careful not to blackout,” team leader 1 says to his team


    14. I was taken, in a blackout, to a Southside precinct drunk tank


    15. After she threw me out of our Oakdale house, to a one bedroom apartment in nearby Salem, I lasted through only 17 days of binge drinking before I suffered the two and one-half hour blackout in a blizzard which convinced me finally that I was absolutely powerless over alcohol and that my life had been unmanageable for several years


    16. The night of my last drink, I somehow lived through a two-hour blackout on my way home from the URI vs


    17. He was in a blackout from which he emerged as he stood in the foyer of the house and quickly realized that something was vastly different than the last time he had visited


    18. ” he thought to himself “Wait for the blackout


    19. arising When the two of these completely converge, there is a blackout,


    20. closure, there is a blackout The nodes along the vertical channel of the

    21. blackout; and then you may have the sensation of moving through a tun-


    22. In January 2009, the State authorities transferred Michael under the cover of darkness and a media blackout to the Tarrant County Jail to await the ultimate resolution of his case


    23. I somehow went into a blackout


    24. There was complete blackout of the news about Jallianwala Bagh


    25. they feared the mass blackout might have been caused by bad punch or


    26. security monitor can’t televise them when there is a blackout,


    27. During an electrical blackout, the generator automatically


    28. We must assume the Colonel insisted on a radio blackout


    29. Then, there was a sudden blackout in the coin collector’s vision


    30. After the first few days of the blackout, with no heating, water or supplies or food, people who were hiding in their homes began to die

    31. During the weeks that followed the blackout, the roadway that led up to the main gate of City Superior was flanked by an expanding shanty-town, populated by a large number of desperate people


    32. a safety precaution in case there's a sudden blackout


    33. I was still in this mental blackout


    34. But I was so wacky, so caught up in the blackout, I couldn’t hear the results


    35. I was still in this blackout state


    36. As soon as her displays cleared from the blackout of the jump she inventoried the other ships


    37. Maybe if a blackout occurred in the entire building, it would make more sense


    38. top secret at this time and a news blackout has been


    39. will be a mistake to place a news blackout on this incident


    40. The MEIGS, like the other ships of the flotilla, were in complete blackout condition, contrary to the city of Brisbane, which seemed to have no worries at all about possible Japanese air or sea raids

    41. “I saw him myself on the beach just south of here yesterday,” Faye added as she took a glass from the vanity and filled it with water then drank the cool liquid to soothe her parched mouth and assist in a quick recovery from her tenderness sustained during her blackout


    42. He knew it was not his wife, since she would never have the decency to call but would prefer to merely barge into the room in hopes of catching him in an indiscretion to confirm her accusations; besides, she was probably in the bedroom recuperating from her slight concussion sustained during the blackout


    43. The hangar was fifty metres long and ten metres wide, there were two long workbenches, one on each side wall, oxyacetylene bottles, pipe-cutters, and a welding machine, a pegboard was fixed to the wall with a huge variety of tools hanging on it, on the far gable wall were three small rooms that must have been used at some time as offices, on one of the bench’s was most of the gear that Murray had ordered, a bundle of thermic lances, four bottles of oxygen, heavy leather apron and heavy duty welding gloves, welding mask, two acrow jacks, electric nail gun, two small fire extinguisher’s, an extractor fan with a large hose attached, blackout curtains made of canvas, framework shelves stacked with metal tubes and steel plates of different thicknesses


    44. “I’ve almost loaded the truck, but I’m afraid I’ll have to put one of the blackout curtains in the panel van, okay


    45. Murray and Mr Hawk hurried from the house and drove the truck and panel van up to the front door, then they took their coats off and began lugging the heavy equipment inside to a room two doors away from the kitchen, the door was locked, using his picks again it was soon open, and there in the centre of the room was the Wilson, Murray covered the barred window with the blackout curtain using a nail gun, next he poured a liberal amount of super epoxy glue over the combination dial, he then set about anchoring the box with builders acrow screws, these extended a further three metres and when braced against the walls stopped the box from moving, next he set up the extractor hood over the area he was about to cut, he then ran the exhaust pipe to the ornate fireplace, he began then to measure the end plate of the box, using a steel scribe he marked a cross, each line fifteen centimetres long, then he laid out the components to set up the thermic lance, these were two metre long steel pipes filled with carbon, attached at one end, which was threaded, by tubing to an oxygen bottle, when you heat up one end of the tube with the oxyacetylene torch you slowly open the oxygen valve on the other end and you have a lance that will melt any metal, the noise is similar to a jet engine ten mile away and the amount of smoke it gives off is similar to the steam from a steam train, needless to say you need an industrial extractor to deal with it


    46. Fifteen minutes later after a bit more fiddling with his probe he called to Mr Hawk and they carried the box out to the vehicle then went back in and began to carry the tool bags with the gear in out to the truck, Mr Hawk called Mr Crow to help load the truck, Mr Hawk and Murray were folding up the blackout curtain when Mr Crow said


    47. ����������� LCMAC-1 was in blackout condition, approaching the German submarine base in Lorient on the French coast of Brittany and using only its lift fans in order to be quieter


    48. � It also had an integrated flashlight mounted on the left side of it, with a red filter lens that could be flipped over the normal lens for blackout conditions


    49. � Then going to the room�s window, she opened the blackout curtain covering it and slid open the window


    50. � It, along with the rest of Berlin, was in blackout condition as a defense against British air raids








































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    Synonyms for "blackout"

    amnesia blackout memory loss brownout dimout swoon insensibility faint stupor coma

    "blackout" definitions

    a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting


    darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)


    the failure of electric power for a general region


    a momentary loss of consciousness


    partial or total loss of memory