BLOT in a Sentence

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55 example sentences for BLOT, such as:

1. He wanted to blot out the memory.
2. There is a blot of ink on the paper.
3. The paper was blotted with ink spots.
4. A dark cloud suddenly blotted out the sun.
5. I will efface that blot on my father's character.

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 Meanings and Examples of BLOT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
blot
 n.  spot or stain, as of ink on paper; blur; weak point or failing
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  Somewhere in her brain, a slow fire rose and rage began to blot out everything else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  She had avoided thinking of Ellen all day but she could no longer blot out her image.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
3  She wanted to rake her sharp nails across his eyes and blot out that queer light in them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
4  Would you deal harshly with those whom you have conquered and who have given themselves into your hands, you can blot out the whole Latin nation.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII.
5  Say what we will, there is something in human nature which we cannot blot out, which makes one man, in the end, recognize and reward merit in another, regardless of colour or race.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV.
6  I will efface that blot on my father's character.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 78. We hear From Yanina.
7  "That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
8  The letter never reached its destination; but that, and other proofs, she kept, in case they ever tried to lie away the blot.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
9  Last night one of my post-dated letters went to post, the first of that fatal series which is to blot out the very traces of my existence from the earth.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  In a moment clouds blot sky and daylight from the Teucrians' eyes; black night broods over the deep.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
11  Now they were blotting them out, as they had already blotted out the cottages.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  It had taken her years to realize that it was really blotted out by this terrifying new and gruesome England, and that the blotting out would go on till it was complete.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
13  It was a foolish precipitation last Christmas, but the evil of a few days may be blotted out in part.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
14  It's very much blotted, sir,' said the farmer of infants; 'but it's formal enough, I dare say.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  A vast shadow, in which could be dimly traced portions of a masculine contour, blotted half the ceiling.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
Example Sentence:
1  He tried to blot out the image of Helen's sad face.
2  He wanted to blot out the memory.
3  There is a blot of ink on the paper.
4  A memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure: is it not?
5  Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure--an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?
6  A dark cloud suddenly blotted out the sun.
7  The paper was blotted with ink spots.