Example sentences for: blew

How can you use “blew” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After a bit of fussing from radio talk show hosts and newspaper columnists, the street-name dust-up blew over, but it's one of the few controversies connected with the Clinton Presidential Library that has.

  • Looks like my good friend William Daniels blew it on this one.

  • By "he," I mean, of course, University of Kentucky basketball star Derek Anderson, who blew out a knee a few months ago.

  • As the Italian chemist Primo Levi dramatically was reminded when a flask blew up in which he was trying to refine benzene under wartime-scarcity conditions, one of several remarkable escapes from death recounted in his collection of autobiographical essays published as The Periodic Table (Schocken, New York: 1984).

  • Who'd have thought that Mamet was secretly in love with the well-carpentered, '40s and '50s drawing-room plays of the terribly English Terence Rattigan, whom the Angry Young Men of the late '50s loutishly blew off the boards--thus paving the way for Mamet's expletive-laced theater games?


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