Sentence examples of "blackout" in English

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Last night I could not do my homework on account of a long blackout. Je n'ai pas pu faire mes devoirs la nuit dernière, à cause d'une longue panne d'électricité.
Every hospital has a back-up electric generator in case of blackout. Chaque hôpital dispose d'un générateur électrique de secours en cas de panne générale.
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