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.
That will have blown away the cobwebs and he is strongly fancied to regain winning brackets. The Sun
It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it. The Sun
Blown in on the north-west monsoon without aid of any chart or astronomical observation, a thousand mariners, tide-driven, converge on the coral reefs.
Sociologists Claude Fischer and Greggor Mattson have argued that while much talk about America fragmenting is overblown, “gaps by social class and educational attainment are widening among Americans by almost any measure.” American Grace
The border dispute turned into a full-blown crisis.
The whistle is to be blown only in the event of emergencies and must be visibly worn at all times while on the premises.
It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it. The Sun
Kevin Newcomb suggests that stories in which Ask. com becomes a woman's search engine are overblown and erroneous. Internet News: Another interpretation of the Ask.com situation
Few human pursuits can conjure up such overblown expectations, fanned by holiday brochure photo-spreads showing impossibly white beaches domed by suspiciously azure skies.
“Santa Ana” winds, or foehn winds, are hot winds … when one of them starts to blown, his assumption that wind will cool down the UHI gets blown out the window. Parker 2006: An Urban Myth? « Climate Audit
But for many smaller outfits, the slowdown has become a full-blown credit crunch.
In case there is any mistake, Dawkins gives the example of a permanent dune - a barchan - that the wind pushes across the desert but which maintains it shape even while individual grains of sand are being blown into and out of the dune. May 6th, 2009
I'm just blown away by the fusions of Brazilian music and pop, rock, and jazz taking place there.
I'm just blown away by the audacity the team has to toss around the word "musculoskeletal" and expect us to go along with it. WNYMedia
The imitations were produced by the painter and decorator on the canvas he used daily as a decorator, Lincrusta - perhaps better known as modern-day blown vinyl.
In an act of vandalism, the navy had blown this off in 1971 to instal a beacon, which probably never worked. 'Hello Mum, I'm on Rockall': The £100bn piece of rock
They may arise from dormant seeds, or colonise by windblown seeds.
The land- or cityscapes in the blown-up photos introduce varying degrees of spatial recession, the depth depending on the scenes.
I was blown away by your story — so powerful, multileveled, poetic prose, all in so few words: a fabulous job. Interview with String-of-10 TWO First Place Winner: Ann Pino
For the most part, the sound is vintage electric Chicago blues, employing a raw two-guitar attack that buzzes with the dirty sound of overworked amps and blown speakers.
The Tribunal found that the vehicle was seriously damaged: a hole was blown in the sump.
I was blown away by it, especially the emotional quality it has. The Sun
Finally, I found some hand-blown bubbled-glass feeders from Mexico, with elegant red glass flowers as the spigots for the hummers' beaks.
Our big opportunity had been blown by a bunch of tight-lipped, upright folks who wanted to mind their own business.
But where are the media, now that her cover has been blown?
The sleeves of her coat were blown back; but surprisingly, the wind was pleasantly warm, like the wind before Winter had come.
Same Sky, the trade-not-aid initiative that I founded in 2008 employs women artisans in Zambia and Rwanda and trains them to crochet beautiful jewelry made with handblown glass beads. Francine LeFrak: Can We Change the World by the Way We Shop?
The classic presentation of poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis is a full-blown nephritic syndrome with oliguric acute renal failure.
Through the blown scud the clamour of the bell came mournfully to us over the waves; in the blown drifts of rain we saw the bawley labouring to us. Movie Night
The two rulings have blown holes in that. Times, Sunday Times
On the last night in Kweilin, 550 barracks and shacks were blown up. The Last Empress
There was ‘ongoing risk that residents' open wounds can become flyblown and infested with maggots’.
He said Alexkor recently "armoured" a particular slimes dam with coarse overburden to stop a windblown "plume" of fine material that was threatening the proclaimed Ramsar wetland site at the mouth of the Orange River. ANC Daily News Briefing
Seeing the disaster zone in the cold light of day can be enough to speed a headache to a full-blown hangover.
The dustbins containing my bird seed and nuts were blown over, a section of fencing was ripped out during the night.
The clay dries and cracks in the sun, and the top layers are blown off as dust.
Nits stick to the hair while things like dandruff and dried hairspray flakes can be blown away.
Pickering's hyla, his little bagpipe blown almost to bursting as he tries to rally the scattered summer by his tiny, mighty "skirl. The Hills of Hingham
As for lipstick, maintain the lips' natural shape. Don't overdraw the lips or outline them, which can lead to a blown-up-doll look.
We are all familiar with "compositing" photos, in which we might take the blown-out area of one photo and replace it with the perfectly exposed area of another photo. Photofocus
The threat of cyberwar is overblown, he argues. Times, Sunday Times
The squall that had blown in just as we left the mainland was now peeling spray off the whitecaps, and I was drenched.
Friday night's gusty winds blew on through Saturday and matured into a full-blown storm as Britain slept last night - or rather, as Britain tried to sleep.
The wind must have blown it over.
Fortunately, full-blown flu epidemics are relatively rare.
Military France is everywhere full of sour inflammatory humour, which exhales itself fuliginously, this way or that: a whole continent of smoking flax; which, blown on here or there by any angry wind, might so easily start into a blaze, into a continent of fire! The French Revolution
Though operators admit that the beautiful packaging, such as Porfidio's handblown bottle with a cactus inside and Lapiz Azulis pyramid-shaped bottles, do spark interest, some worry about rising costs.
Mr. Batiste made an unexpected entrance at about 10:30 p.m., striding in from the back of Dizzy's, leading his sextet to the stage as he chanted and played the melodica, a mouth-blown, hand-held mini-keyboard. Passing Down the Piano Torch Song
Sahara desert sand and pollution blown in from the continent combined to cause people to cover up in masks. The Sun
In its early history, music was the serious concern of voices, or instruments blown or bowed.
By the early 1990s, the above-mentioned "structural" changes were building up to a very strong pressure toward a full-blown financial liberalization.
That will have blown away the cobwebs and he goes well at Cheltenham. The Sun
The ethylene dibromide misses some of the lead because what is not caught by it and blown out the exhaust as lead bromide is deposited in the combustion chamber and on the spark plugs. Undefined
He didn't want to allow what might be his only chance to be with her fritter away like paper blown by the wind.
Just after boarding was complete he activated the first signal and pictured in his mind the valves being blown so that there would be gas leaks all over the building.
John himself was waiting for the small hydro generator to be blown. T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
Nor do new cognitive skills emerge full-blown. The Developing Child (7th edn.)
The women who organised the first Ladyfest, who are also playing at the Glasgow event, are blown away by these three lassies from Glasgow who came all that way and had such an amazing experience that they've organised one of their own.
A crisis has blown up over the President's latest speech.
Out at his eyes it would go, traverse the dim stairless space, and sport with the wind-blown monster. Robert Falconer
Gale force winds which threatened floods at the weekend have blown unprecedented numbers of a small Arctic seabird on to the North sea coast.
Work quickly or keep the cutting material in a plastic bag blown up like a balloon and sealed.
You may think you've seen some amazing putt-putt shots, but the fact that this video's YouTube title was "The greatest putt-putt shot of all time" should tell you you're about to have your mind blown. WATCH: The Greatest Shot In Miniature Golf History
They'd blown a fortune downlinking the relays to ground-level stations with omnidirectional antennae.
Gorey said a byproduct of the proposed plant will be a black, lava-like substance, which can be granulated for road-bed use or air blown for industrial insulation. Susan Buchanan: New Orleans East Residents Oppose Garbage Processing Plant
If all else fails, poor coke in and complain that users are abusing pcs One thing that can get you, especially if you overclock, is blown electrolytical capacitors. CertCities.com | IT Forums
The carbon 14 atoms oxidise to carbon dioxide which gets blown about and mixed up with lower atmosphere.
The myth of Hitler's invulnerability was soon blown sky - high.
But the sand last been blown over here by the wind through these portals on the first floor of this building.
The anemograph screen was blown over and smashed beyond all repair. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
The league has already blown its £2,500 budget for emergency clothing on basics like underwear and pyjamas.
Then a breeze shivered among the tops of the apple-trees, and the sered leaves were blown from the branches. Esther Waters
We were able to step up the awards ceremony from last year's weenie roast to a full-blown rock'n'roll New York City rager.
The next stage, she says, is an attitude of helplessness about work, the full-blown Sisyphus complex.
The whole affair was blown up out of all proportion.
However, don't think Queen Mary 2 is another clone for the lumbering, simpering, overblown jolly boats wallowing and waddling around the world's sunshine destinations.
The welfare state and the managed economy did not suddenly emerge full-blown in this period.
In 1990 the tree on which they grow was blown over by a cyclone - or the fringes of one - but we managed to raise it up again.
Once they have worked out an essay, they have ideas that cannot be blown away by the first person who comes along with a firm opinion. A Short Guide to Writing About History
Now it has developed into a full-blown national discussion about what it means to be British in the twenty-first century.
She was stunned by the early ouster of David Hasselhoff, taken with the pigeon-toed charm of Mike "the Situation" Sorrentino and blown away by the sensuality of Jennifer Grey. Carrie Ann Inaba Opens Up About Dancing With the Stars
The grandedame gestures of the late fifties had gone, the overblown and icky sentiment had gone.
He shows slumping and blown-out sidehills below failed logging roads.
So I'm 12 miles from home, with no spare tubes, a blown tyre, and no way of fixing it.
It is simply not worth having a failure against your name; a sullied reputation means a manager who may have blown his last chance. Times, Sunday Times
The battle site was for many years recorded by a stone obelisk which stood on the bank of the river at Oldbridge but which was blown up in the early years of the 20th century.
After he saw a pal blown up, he pointed a gun at another squaddie. The Sun
One that caught my eye seemed to be a mass of bubbles in blown glass.
The dance hall once even had its roof blown off in World War II.
Moving pinpoints of light were formed by water running down the side of the icicle, dangling from the end, and either freezing solid or being blown away by a gust of wind.
What began as a heated exchange of words soon became full-blown fisticuffs.
The windblown snow, called sastrugi, is exceptionally hard and jostles and tosses the snow machines with every little bump. NYT > Home Page
They are tumbling down in wind-blown, varicoloured showers on to pavements and woodland floors everywhere. Times, Sunday Times
The crew took extra care and caution around the window dividers and sills - the European hand-blown glass costs thousands of dollars to replicate and replace.
The most effective way to curb under-age drinking is by pointing out the effects of full-blown alcoholism.
Plenty of countries rightly 'meddled' in the affairs of the United States when they saw black children being blown down by powerful water hoses and attacked by dogs at civil rights marches. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Spectator of the Free World: Obama and Iran
A gale howls over the hunchback of Cairngorm, stinging our faces with windblown sleet.
Also, they edit these films on moviolas or monitors not much bigger than your home computer, so they miss stuff that can only be seen when blown up to 60 feet.
At dusk we sat on the porch, in the faint blown scent of old rose. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
Three Stages and the idea of a hierarchy of the sci - ences; the worship of natural science and of technol - ogy; the commitment to a physiological view of the mind; the subjection of the historical process to laws of human nature; the interweaving and interdepend - ence of scientific and historical method; the increas - ingly emphatic view of themselves in messianic terms, and the development of a full-blown religion to replace orthodox Christianity, complete with disciples — all these and other teachings were common to the two men. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
But the roof of their domesticity is shaking, ready to be blown away along with other houses in their neighborhood. The Cyclical Night
When we're at the end of the track after a run, the neatest-sounding car is still a blown-alcohol dragster.
There appears to me to be insuperable objections to this view: on the other hand, I can hardly believe, in this and in some other cases, that these marginal crateriform mountains are merely the basal remnants of immense volcanos, of which the summits either have been blown off, or swallowed up in subterranean abysses. Chapter XXI
By utilizing a combination of polyurethane foam and blown in cellulose The Method Cabin will achieve an R value of 25+ will improve energy efficiency. Method Homes completes its first prefab cabin
On the bottom of the bottle was a scar not unlike an umbilicus, where an iron pontil rod had held the hot, freshly blown bottle while its neck was being shaped. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
Five minutes into Double Agent – the Eddie Chapman Story BBC2 our bespectacled presenter Ben McIntyre has leapt from the cargo door of a Nazi plane, blown open a locked safe and done a runner in the London underground clutching a sackful of stolen banknotes. TV review: Double Agent - the Eddie Chapman Story; Imagine … Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings From Scarborough
They seemed so glad to see us that they did not mind that we had just blown their chicken house to smithereens. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
A video pre-confession from every bomber could still not explain why the subbasement was blown up ... 9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing
Blown rubber forefoot outsole with solid carbon rubber heel.
Yes the Beckites are a full blown subsect (subcult)? of this movement. Think Progress » KKK has ‘reversed declining membership’ in recent years.
Fungi disperse themselves by releasing spores, usually windblown.
When he sent weather balloons high into the atmosphere he was surprised to find them blown away by powerful high-altitude winds sweeping eastwards. Times, Sunday Times
I at first thought that it was owing to dust blown from the surrounding mountains of red porphyry; for from the magnifying power of the crystals of snow, the groups of these microscopical plants appeared like coarse particles. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
We've blown our chances of getting that contract.
GCHQ's cover was blown by Time Out in 1976, but it was only officially "avowed" in 1982 when Geoffrey Prime, a former linguist at GCHQ, was jailed for 38 years for passing secrets to the Russians over a 14-year period. Not so secret: deal at the heart of UK-US intelligence
I was blown away by the beauty and majesty of the ensemble choir, who only got together for the first time some three days earlier.
If free blown, the bulbous glass is attached to a metal rod, called a pontil, for further shaping after reheating in the furnace.
Lead capsule, hand blown glass, under the shoulder fill – some serious ullage – NEVER topped up. Embarassing moments in bottle opening - The Rabbit and Benito's blog | Dr Vino's wine blog
We began a full-blown affair which has lasted until this day. The Sun
The wind is too with the pain you give is blown away.
What began as a small commotion is quickly growing into a full-blown riot.
Heck, even the venerable New York Times devoted substantial ink to the whole overblown affair.
On one of them was Blue Mooney, his pale blond hair blown against his cheek as he skidded around the corner.
In English it can seem ridiculously overblown. The Times Literary Supplement
One of Sydney's famous westerlies had blown the roof off another house he lived in.
They were blown away with contemptuous ease in the first few minutes in the south of France yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
It's like, if you'd made a really successful toy, people would expect the toymaker to have his mind totally blown. Times, Sunday Times
He was also seen wandering around the garden having a full-blown conversation with himself. The Sun
I'd never seen a guitarist doing slide work in music this heavy before and I was blown away.
I want my world rocked and my cosy assumptions blown out of the water.
In windblown collections of debris, the surface is more than covered.
She is about 13 years old, living proof of the tensions that have grown up over decades in Redfern, passing down the generations and exploding into a full-blown race riot.
Nobody likes them and they don't care not if some of the flyblown specimens that come sauntering up to you in Trafalgar Square are anything to go by. Bruisers of the bird world keep Mike Tyson's fighting spirit cooped up | Martin Kelner
At the Santa Maria Courthouse is the wind-blown Ted Rowlands, CNN correspondent covering the Jackson trial.
All wrecks which are obviously not salvable should be blown up or otherwise destroyed.
Never heard a gemshorn blown in anger? Times, Sunday Times
My cover would be completely blown if you did that.
The wind had blown the rain in and soaked the carpet.
You are told that your cover has been blown, that your family may be at risk.
But Kansas City brings it all together with more than 90 barbecue joints - from little bitty eateries to full-blown, nothing-but-barbecue restaurants.
But when the package was blown up in a controlled explosion it was found to be a harmless package of French-style bowling balls, or boules.
Air bases were attacked, ships were strafed and fuel dumps were blown up.
They are sent out on patrol and know that at any moment they could be blown to smithereens by a bomb. The Sun
He certainly knew what another meant, and did not relish the idea of being blown to kingdom come for his transgressions.
Strong north-westerly winds whistling around Blackpool's cavernous Winter Gardens this week appear to have blown away the Conservatives.
A third man on the tracks, covered in soot and dirt and with all but his boxer shorts blown off by the blast, had been staring into space, he said. 7/7 inquest: Survivor breaks down as he recalls struggle to help Aldgate injured
To return to the country that slighted him as a fully fledged film star would have been sweet revenge, but he could have blown it.
As the identities of the missing emerge, we move from a statistical body count to the tragedy of human loss - brothers, mothers, lovers and daughters cruelly blown away as they headed to work.
In the event of political convulsions arising from the deepening social and economic crisis of the profit system, the old structure of two big business parties alternating in office may be blown apart.
You were getting blown three metres off line and it was dangerous. Times, Sunday Times
All of them seemed to have survived at least one very close encounter with death (one paused half a minute to eat a walnut and thus avoided getting blown to bits by a rocket that killed two soldiers in Grozny) and most of them had been wounded. What the heck have I been doing the last few months?
To make soap powder, a liquid is blown through a nozzle.
When the aircraft pressurizes, it seals itself so it can't be opened, or blown open, during flight.
A wind-blown wildfire around the city of Conway has forced people to evacuate, about 60 homes.
As my husband and I stroll along the banks of the Gomti river, enjoying the wind blown, kaleidoscopic saris, freshly embroidered, starched and washed by the dhobis or washer men, then suspended to dry, we meet, chat and fall in love with a soulful dhobi. Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Ecstasy and Agony of India -- From the Political to the Tribal
We planted it 12 years ago, to replace one blown down in the previous storms.
He felt wind in his face, sharp and cold; the chemosensor antennae flanking his mouth quivered as they drank organic odors blown off the plains. Three Worlds to Conquer
All of the handwriting data can be blown up, reduced and circumrotated.
I made it as quick as possible - the rain was still being blown hard against the windows and I could see large forks of lightning through the sheets of rain.
The defence of a ruined fort in the flyblown town of San Antone, against a superior force of trained Mexican troops, seemed reckless in the extreme.
Compressed air is blown into an opening and the two sheets inflate.
Female speaker I think it's been blown up out of all proportion.
A wall was blown out and part of the upper floor collapsed. Times, Sunday Times
By full time, it bordered on a full-blown travesty of justice.
It is a video of an empty plastic bag dancing in the street, blown here and there by the gusty winds of an approaching storm.
Their recently acquired understanding very often prevents them from achieving a full-blown panic attack.
Fifteen people were blown to pieces by the car bomb.
Petroplus plans to meet with statutory consultees, like the county council, and Countryside Council for Wales, early in the new year about a possible ‘scoping’ document for a full-blown power station.
Its people became rich beyond all dreams of avarice, and in one generation not only have they blown it but they have blown their health, as well.
On one of them was Blue Mooney, his pale blond hair blown against his cheek as he skidded around the corner.
Prosthetic limbs are dropped by parachute to a wind blown field hospital for land mine victims.
Fallen leaves are swept into heaps, only to be blown away again and large palm fronds and tree branches scatter the tarmac.
If the politics of naked greed and devil-take-the-hindmost are blown away, then the future battleground is more progressive, between centre and centre-left.
The railings are broken, the steps descending into Terrace Field are now so wonky that they are impassable to some less agile walkers and many of the trees that once crowned the hilltop have died or blown over.
His cold has developed into full blown ‘smoker's cough’ this morning, poor little mite.
The whole notion of momentum in sports is bogus, or at least way overblown. Just Who Are These Yankees?
This case has been blown totally out of proportion because of the media attention.
And, as far as ridiculously pompous, overblown musical statements go, no-one holds a candle to Simple Minds.
The abdomen is blown up with carbon dioxide so that space exists between your pelvic organs. Alternative Health Care for Women
With all the bridges over the River Main blown out, Anderson confiscated an abandoned wooden boat and he and the intelligence officer, both seasoned fishermen, rowed across to Schweinfurt, battling a heavy current that threatened to carry the party of four over a milldam. Masters of the Air
While some of these images are serious, others poke fun at this period's overblown piousness.
So many films nowadays involve everyone and everything being blown to smithereens.
Disguises are assumed, safes are blown, millions of dollars are heisted according to a completely new and clever scheme, but this is pure escapism.
Today we are basking in the hot, spring sun in the South Pacific, with a light breeze and stuns'ls set; tomorrow we could be in a full-blown gale and 35-foot seas, and cyclone season isn't far off.
At this point, you will let out a scream suggesting that some one has just blown off your toe with a. 45.
Jones, who appeared blown at the barriers two laps from the end, came in for fifth, a one-place improvement from Friday. Jeremy Powers outduels Ryan Trebon in day 2 of Cincinnati UCI3 Cyclocross Festival
The young man looked embarrassed, as if he were a spy whose cover had been blown.
The ship was blown off course.
It's a bit demoralising riding into the headwinds, and the sidewinds can be a frightening (being blown out into traffic being a Bad Thing).
I've posted several articles that quote British "nutritionists" making overblown or just plain loony claims about milk and dairy allergy. More UK Dairy Allergy Nonsense

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