Sentence examples for blackout i from inspiring English sources

But in the blackout, I had the last laugh.

In 2003, during the New York City blackout, I was caught in the subway when the power went out.

"During the five days of the Internet blackout, I was at Tahrir Square for almost every day," he recalled, referring to the hive of the Cairo protests.

In the chaos and cooperation of the blackout, I was disturbed to hear President Bush's cynical and selfaggrandizing comments.

"Usually when there's a blackout, I come downstage with the snowballs, but you want me to stay and get the tent down?" Rylance called from the stage.

As a witness to the blackout, I was not surprised to see private citizens helping each other and to hear about others taking advantage of the situation.

If it weren't for the blackouts, I'd probably still be drinking today".

During the worst of the blitz, he wrote to a friend in America, "The ordinary people are so magnificent that with all the discomforts and food rationing and cigarette shortage and blackouts, I want to be with them".

My parents had taken me to specialists because of the dizzy spells and blackouts I was suffering, but they found nothing wrong with me and said I would eventually "grow out of it".

In the midst of one week of blackouts, I remember witnessing a friend of mine, who hails from an upper middle class family, snipe a sheikh he was hosting at his home as the power cut out yet again.

I had my first blackout when I was 14.