Example sentences for: blows

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

  • You'll have been driving for 10 straight hours across North Dakota when suddenly the wind blows a huge metal road sign into your lane.

  • But McCain's punches were awkwardly thrown--in part because the other candidates crowded the ring, keeping Bush and McCain apart--and Bush absorbed the blows with genial poise.

  • In the Dirty Harry movies or the rabidly right-wing 1986 Heartbreak Ridge (which ends with a potency-reclaiming invasion of Grenada), there's little irony in Eastwood's superiority to the succession of louts, prisses, and psychopaths whom his character inevitably clobbers or blows away, or in the fact that he is of greater stature than the actors with whom he surrounds himself.

  • There's Storm of the Century , Isaac's Storm , The Perfect Storm , When the Wind Blows , and my favorite, Nature on the Rampage , a Kamasutra for weather nymphos.

  • It's not so bad that the blows aren't heavily amplified, but when the bad guys get it there isn't that extra sadistic beat to let you know how surprised they are that their aura of invincibility has been punctured.


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