Sentence examples for blackout up from inspiring English sources

Many kinds of design uncertainties exist from the possible electric blackout up to the illness of an engineer.

The daily blackouts — up to 20 hours long in places — have left many people miserable and jobless in the grueling summer heat.

Although Abiomed of Danvers, Mass., publicized its artificial heart in April, Dr. Gray said his team and the company had vowed that they "would do the implant under the cloak of secrecy," imposing a news blackout for up to 30 days after the operation.

Just when we thought things couldn't get more ridiculous in Dubai,a photo from a party called Blackout popped up featuring a monkey in clothes with a vodka bottle held up to its mouth.

The blackout affected up to 17 of Venezuela's 23 states for most of the afternoon, with power gradually restored after three hours.

Tokyo Electric has been using rolling blackouts of up to three hours in designated zones to balance demand and supply.

The government couldn't afford to import fuel; bicycles replaced cars on Havana's streets, and there were daily blackouts lasting up to twelve hours.

Most Chinese factories have heavily polluting diesel generators to cope with blackouts of up to three days a week, because state-owned electricity companies have not added capacity fast enough to meet demand.

Many Gazans have experienced electricity blackouts of up to eight hours a day in any case during the hot summer months, because the local power station has not been able to meet the increased demand.

Why are we putting up blackout curtains?

"The 9/11 blackout was messed up," she said.