Example Sentences

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"Blotted out", applied both to "man's image and his cry", is a phrase that could be associated with pens and writing.

From The Guardian • Aug. 9, 2010

“There are now. I was exiled. Forgotten. Blotted out as if I never existed.”

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

Blotted against trees or on the grass were other couples darker than the darkness, very silent.

From Beyond by Galsworthy, John

Blotted out as it was, the observation still remains—a tribute of honest admiration.

From Bob, Son of Battle by Ollivant, Alfred

Life! thou sea-fugue, writ from east to west, Love, Love alone can pore On thy dissolving score Of wild half-phrasings, Blotted ere writ, And double erasings.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various