Example sentences for: blow-by-blow

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

  • In what it calls a "case study" of the problems that plague U.N. intervention, the paper gives a blow-by-blow account of how Indonesia wriggled out of Western demands that it agree in advance to shackle pro-Jarkata militias on East Timor and guarantee the safety of foreign election observers.

  • But the WP also has an excellent narrative of the mission, right down to a (literally) blow-by-blow account of the fist-fight in which the Mossad agents were captured.

  • Pennington's authoritative and blow-by-blow account shows failings not only in the butcher (who was, incidentally, Scottish Master Butcher of the Year in 1996), but also in the inspectors who had visited his shop eight times in the previous two years.

  • The blow-by-blow of the Mideast peace talks continues to dominate, leading at USA Today , the New York Times , and the Washington Post . This is also the top international news story at the Los Angeles Times , which leads instead with word that bilingual education continues to thrive in California's public schools despite passage this year of a statewide initiative substantially restricting it.

  • Their story of how the Internet was discovered is a blow-by-blow saga of how a single engineering problem, in this case the construction of the ARPANET (precursor to the Internet), was solved.


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