[ UK /blˈə‍ʊn/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫoʊn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor
    blown soil mounded on the window sill
    blown clouds of dust choked the riders
  2. breathing laboriously or convulsively

How To Use blown In A Sentence

  • Many of the wrecks around our coasts are either mine or torpedo victims, and either way there is a colossal bang, the ship gets a big chunk blown out of it and the rest lands in a heap nearby.
  • The servants disappeared as if they were whiffs of smoke blown away by the wind.
  • My whistle, it appeared, would have to remain mostly unblown. Times, Sunday Times
  • And when I see how many people are being sucked into gold investments from all those cheesy radio and TV ads (with their overt or sometimes explicit survivalist overtones), I see another bubble being blown that at some sad point will go blooey. Fox Business News, Where Green Arrows Turn Brown Eyes Blue: James Wolcott
  • That should have spelled the end of the convertible, except for one thing: The open car with its sun-baked, wind-blown passengers became a symbol of youth, freedom, and sexuality.
  • In the Whispering Gallery at the presidential library and museum, Aidan was blown away by political cartoons of the day that criticized Lincoln for his stance on slavery.
  • Kampke was blown overboard off the footrope that ran under the yard, as he stood there hauling in on the sail. Tramping on Life
  • There are motifs, themes, and recurring melodies, all the things you'd expect from one song blown up to forty minutes.
  • Traffic pollution and dirt blown around by the wind add to the problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • We could, he implied, be fried, blown up, poisoned or atomised any day now.
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