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blackout - use in sentences
Converse of object
- suffer: He was brought to the surface and got out of the water, where he suffered blackouts, limb tremors and chest pain.
- roll: Tentatively at first, with rolling blackouts and then with all it glory.
- impose: The Blackout imposed on all civilians in all cities was absolute.
- cause: We'll find out here what caused the blackout.
Adjective modifier
- rolling: Scheduled rolling blackouts several days per week lasted for many years.
- widespread: This caused widespread blackouts, which cost the Canadian national grid several million of pounds in damage to their systems.
- frequent: As prodigious climbers, the snakes were blamed for frequent blackouts in the 1980s by shorting across lines and transformers.
- massive: More than 1,250 homes and one of Shropshire's biggest retail parks were left without electricity earlier today during a massive power blackout.
- electrical: Finely being court up in London's electrical blackout, fortunately we were not on the tube.
- total: At the start of the second act I had to enter through the audience in a total blackout.
Modifies a noun
- curtain: Having blackout curtains may also help you sleep better by keeping your room darker.
- end: Leaving your front door open, knowing everybody that lives in your street, hoping the blackouts end soon.
- blind: All rooms offer natural daylight & blackout blinds & are fully air-conditioned.
- restriction: Despite blackout restrictions, the Luftwaffe had a relatively easy way of getting to London.
- regulation: Blackout regulations have been condemned by the King's surgeon Wilfred Trotter.
Noun used with modifier
- wartime: All too soon we would be in the Far east where we had wartime blackout conditions again.
- media: There's not a complete media blackout of the game tho.
- electricity: These ' magnetic storms ' disrupt radio communications and have even caused electricity blackouts.
- news: The news blackout will not take effect here, on Kirkby Times, were free Speech isn't just a throwaway phrase.
- power: A bodybuilder pumps iron during a power blackout at a gym in Baghdad.
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