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Then I heard footsteps on a stairs, and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door.

Delaney, 38, also helped him to have a life: She blocked out time for him to work out several times a week.

Ash from the huge eruption the previous year of a Peruvian volcano called Huaynaputina blocked out the sun.

I tried to let it go, but could not, and still the wave came on, till it blocked out the very sun and it was too late to be flying anywhere.

A recent Wednesday was blocked out for a wine and cheese mixer and an all-hands talk on stock options.

I had envisioned this polluted wasteland where rivers ran black, living conditions were terrible, and soot blocked out the sun.

Then we carried on in the worst conditions yet: low, tangled rainforest that blocked out the light, and mud up to our thighs.

Within 200 kilometers of the caldera, most sunlight would be blocked out, so the sky at noon would look like that at dusk.

It was an intensity that blocked out other distractions.

Opposition is effectively blocked out of the most part of media, especially television.

The architect quickly blocked out a sketch of the construction site.

Learn from Ulysses and tie yourself to the mast or fill your ears with wax so temptations are blocked out or you are unable to act on them.

She quickly blocked out a sketch of the construction site.

Blocked out the traffic and blocked out the sun.

A tiny house was blocked out black upon the sky.

But now, the beautiful scene disappeared, our sight was blocked out by the skyscraper everywhere.

eg 2. The dense foliage of the tree almost blocked out the sun.

It was so huge and close to earth it blocked out the entire night sky.

The new reserves blocked out scope and calculating limits are put forward in this paper.

To achieve this, compress the database spaces after the instance has been blocked out or shut down.

Elaine: Blonde hair remember? Glasses? [pause] Have you *totally* blocked out the entire time we were a couple?

As a result, the great dust cloud which was formed in the sky blocked out the sunshine.

He's blocked out an outline for his essay.

I really don't remember a whole lot from my childhood because it's all blocked out, but mental problems aren't unheard of in my family.

You are blocked out, say again please.

In case you blocked out the traumatic memory from your own adolescence, I'll remind you of the highlights

I blocked out an hour every day to study and it has been an amazing experience so far.