Example sentences for: blow

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

  • I wish Schwarzenegger would come back now and blow everything up again.

  • The New York Times leads with the immediate aftermath of the Jerusalem market bombing, and the Washington Post leads with the police raid in Brooklyn that apparently interrupted a plot to blow up subways and buses, a plot with eerie reflections of, if not actual connections to, the Jerusalem slaughter.

  • As for schnoz , it does sound Yiddish, there does exist a verb schneitzen `to blow one's nose,' and the shn - combination does connote something to do with the nose; but there is no word shnozzle in Yiddish, only noz or, in the alternate dialect, nuz . Phudnik is not a Yiddish word but was clearly formed on the Yiddish root -nik , which also occurs in Slavic.

  • In addition, an Algerian group hijacked an airliner in 1994, most likely intending to blow it up over Paris, but possibly to crash it into the Eiffel Tower.

  • In many ways the city has never recovered from Hideyoshi’s subsequent decision to move the national capital from Kyoto to Edo (now Tokyo) in the early 1600s — a blow compounded by the young Emperor Meiji shifting the imperial household to Tokyo in 1868.


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