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put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
snuff out the candles
quench the flames
Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained -
melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
The lightbulbs blew out
The fuse blew -
erupt in an uncontrolled manner
The oil well blew out
How To Use blow out In A Sentence
- A modern blow out preventer for an undersea well consists of a series or "stack" of several different valves, with different methods of actuation, and a control system. Dr. Philip Neches: Gulf Oil Spill: Meet the Blow Out Preventer
- Our next phase has to blow out of the water major myths and untruths about live animal export.
- April 30th, 2010 5: 53 pm ET bp is the one slow to react. they should have had equipment ready to take to any rig in the gulf. was the blow out preventer checked befor it was put in place. i have seen them full of concrete that would not close. this is not Obamas fault any more than it is mine. when you are drilling in 5000 feet of water you had better get ready for any thing. the fault lays with bp and bp only. as for rush he needs to be run out of the country. Political fallout for Obama amid oil spill disaster?
- Within seconds, the Fireguard recognized that the JFS could not blow out the fire and used the fire extinguisher to quickly extinguish the blaze.
- The electric fire has blow out.
- Be careful! A short circuit will blow out the fuse.
- Strong cold winds, generated on the ice sheet's northern flanks, blow out across the ocean, cooling the surface waters.
- Blow out the candles before they burn out.
- Only two of the confirmed fatalities were workers employed at the Chuandongbei gas field where a blow out had released a 30-metre geyser of concentrated sulfurated hydrogen.
- I inhaled deeply and puffed a great wind of air to blow out the 18 tiny tea lights.