Example sentences for: blown

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

  • [S]aying that our only hope is to cultivate a kind of stoned aesthetic detachment whereby even a man with his brains blown out becomes an object of beauty and a signpost to a Higher Power.

  • In the combat genre, the phrase "war is hell" usually means nothing more than that it's a bummer to lose a limb or two, or to see your buddy get his head blown off.

  • And when a pair of Allied soldiers, fresh from witnessing their buddies being blown to bits, shot several pleading Germans rather than take them prisoner, I didn't applaud the act, but I didn't feel much like grieving, either.

  • The island is situated less than 115 km (71 miles) off the coast of North Africa, and most of its sand is blown here from the Sahara, giving a new meaning to the term “desert island.”

  • It isn't clear to us why she is naked; perhaps the force of an explosion has blown away her clothes.


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