Example Sentences

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Yet in recent months, the utility has heard a chorus of complaints from communities including Moorpark and Malibu that it is blacking out customers even when the winds are calm.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

And you know who else is blacking out the story?

From Fox News • Oct. 16, 2020

Absalom is blacking boots in a New York hotel, weeks ago.—Ah! what a coat!

From The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery by Douie, Marjorie

When it is known to a member that an outsider is blacking for a less sum, the fact is reported to the society, which appoints a delegation to look after the presumptuous individual.

From The Secrets of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney