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UK
/blˈɑːstɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈbɫæstɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫæstɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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unpleasantly loud and penetrating
shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio
the blaring noise of trumpets -
causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces
a ruinous war
the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit
How To Use blasting In A Sentence
- An undercutter cuts a horizontal slot, or kerf, along the floor of the advancing room to provide a relief for blasting.
- Angry Reader has a point about "spill," and while I can see Joel's point about it being what people call it, I respectfully suggest that it's that logic which got us to the point where we called chaining people to walls, beating them, freezing them, blasting music and noise at them at decibel levels high enough to inflict pain, electrifying their genitals, humiliating them and then drowning them repeatedly "enhanced interrogation techniques. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
- Both of the metal slabs on his hips unfolded into their gun modes and began blasting away the enemy units two at a time.
- The physical model of cantilever board in bench blasting is firstly presented and based on the hypothesis, a formula for calculating the charge weight in the MS delay bench blasting is also derived.
- Alfred persevered, first inventing the blasting cap and then discovering that a silicaceous earth, kieselguhr, would stabilize nitroglycerin, thus making dynamite. Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
- Congressman John Murtha is blasting what he calls swift boat style attacks stemming from his fight with Steny Hoyer. CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2006
- He believes that bead blasting with aluminum oxide gives a finer finished product than glass bead.
- Every brick was reused, while timbers were cleaned with dry ice, a gentler technique than sandblasting. Times, Sunday Times
- Sand blasting would leave marks and sand in the wood, which would have to be sanded out and filled in to obtain a smooth final finish.
- Some surprisingly inventive puzzles are included amid the expertly handled robot blasting and leaping around with a jetpack. Times, Sunday Times