Example Sentences

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“Concerns are held for the occupants of these two vehicles due to serious weather conditions” that have hampered the search effort, with low clouds occluding an aerial search, a spokesman for the police said.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2024

This image was taken by JWST’s NIRCam, allowing it to capture previously hidden features within and behind the occluding dust.

From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2022

His team beat Oklahoma, 21-14, in the Sugar Bowl national title game Jan. 4, 2004, and it was a matter of labor occluding art rather than today’s splashy fashion of art occluding labor.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2021

We know objectively how much the ornaments overwhelm the tree, but we don’t really grasp it until we try and look at the tree without the occluding ornaments.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2016

But deep in the fields the brownish stalks rise from the earth to more than twice her height, occluding her vision.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García