Sentence examples for heavy blackout from inspiring English sources

One night Stephen wakes up and sees, beyond the heavy blackout curtains, a familiar world that has become, under the full moon, a photo negative of itself, its ordinary plants and houses "picked out, against a background of velvet darkness, in the most delicately brilliant and unearthly white".

Heavy-handed blackouts are distracting, as are the dancers' costumes, by Nicola Gardiner, which include unflattering high-waisted, brown-belted pants.

The initiative is a program to show off this city of heavy industries, power blackouts and high unemployment to American investors.

The first, which took effect immediately, instituted a ban during heavy rains and a blackout period from mid-November to March in which no fertilizer could be applied.

Cellular service remained spotty throughout much of the Northeast and parts of the Midwest yesterday, despite the restoration of electrical power in many of the areas affected by Thursday's blackout, as heavy usage and continued problems at some transmitter stations continued to tax the system.

The island's blackout followed heavy snowfalls in parts of Scotland which resulted in dozens of schools being closed.

In Tasmania, wild weather on Tuesday caused mass blackouts, while heavy rainfall in the north of the state caused significant flooding, less than a month after three people were killed in the worst floods in 80 years.

Frequent blackouts after heavy drinking.

After one heavy night I awoke from blackout to find myself slumbering alongside an African-American whose name, I dimly remembered, was Richard.

Victoria's premier, Daniel Andrews, has slammed Malcolm Turnbull's response to South Australia's once-in-50-years storm, saying he is peddling "ignorant rubbish" by conflating the state's blackout with its heavy use of renewable energy.

You may want blackout blinds or heavy curtains so that you can manipulate the lighting.