blown

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.