Sentence examples for through a blackout from inspiring English sources

"I had never been through a blackout like that before".

5) ABC suffered through a blackout in the middle of its election broadcast.

The actors mime washing their dishes, and when a plate breaks, the effect is achieved through a blackout and a sound effect.

When people live as close together as New Yorkers do, there is no possible way to get through a blackout without rubbing up against someone else's sensibilities.

Sandy-shaken Connecticut is the first state in the country to roll out a statewide microgrid program aiming to maintain power for some businesses and public services when a storm roars through the state, or a blackout disrupts the power grid.

The government's desire for secrecy in the hearings is consistent with the military's attempts to break the hunger strikes through a media blackout.

That same short-sightedness explains our inability to understand the $1.1 million bonus recently given to Kevin M. Burke, the head man at Consolidated Edison, at the same time that the utility was offering $100 each to Queens customers who had suffered through a long blackout two summers ago.

"I've never been through a rolling blackout, but this seems just as bad," said Juan Cameron, a Georgetown resident who was expecting 150 guests for the weekend wedding of his daughter.

Mr. Hauer said there would be enough food for at least seven days and enough fuel to power the facility through a four-day blackout.

Mollison often had to take blood for transfusion to small local hospitals, driving a van through the blackout.

The outrage the power failure elicited from people whose generators hummed right through the blackout suggests a frustration with something more gloomy than the darkness: the persistent intrusion of India's reality upon its aspirations.