Example Sentences

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Traffic hit gridlock conditions because so many traffic lights had blacked out.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025

In the incident report, the deputy said the student, once she had calmed down, told him that she had blacked out and let her anger take over her without realizing what she was doing.

From Washington Times • Jan. 28, 2021

Ms. Klobuchar rose to national prominence during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, when she pressed the nominee on whether he had blacked out drinking.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2019

Ultimately, the investigators concluded that the freshman athlete had no way to know that Lind had blacked out.

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2016

He was very tall, and had blacked his shoes well, and the black light from them seemed to him obtrusive, the more so because his feet were very large.

From By the Light of the Soul A Novel by Brett, Harold M.