Words similar to blow

Example sentences for: blow

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

I was allowed to waveAway the tray of nougat--or rather, the flies on it.Sipping, I waited for a word, a sign from the saint.I'd wanted to lie, as if underground, and watch Him dig up the sky, or stand at a riverbankAnd have the water sweep off my presumptions,Have him blow light into my changeling bones.I wanted to feel the stalk rise and the blade fall.I wanted my life's arithmetic glazed and fired.I wanted the hush, the wingstroke, the shudder.
The Pentagon considers these weapons too unreliable for use in battle--the wind could blow the chemicals back on your own troops.
That's tech-speak for "accidentally blow the world up."
But if Bush didn't blow it, he also failed to reveal any hidden depths.
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.