BLOW in a Sentence
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290 example sentences for BLOW, such as:
1. Great winds blow upon high hills.
2. One mistake could blow your cover.
3. The first blow is half the battle.
4. Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes.
5. This will deal a blow to consumer confidence.
2. One mistake could blow your cover.
3. The first blow is half the battle.
4. Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes.
5. This will deal a blow to consumer confidence.
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Meanings and Examples of BLOW
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blow
v. allow to regain its breath
v. sound by having air expelled through a tube
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 When there, a fresh altercation arose between them, in the course of which Drebber received a blow from the stick, in the pit of the stomach, perhaps, which killed him without leaving any mark.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
2 Turn which way he would, there appeared to be no avoiding the blow which hung over him.
3 Bewildered and stunned by this blow, Jefferson Hope felt his head spin round, and had to lean upon his rifle to save himself from falling.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
4 Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes.
5 His very first blow took a stable-lad from Foxwood on the skull and stretched him lifeless in the mud.
6 She flushed, and the little breath too was audible that she drew in as once more he struck a blow at her faith.
7 She had to steady the ruffle which threatened to blow away.
8 Poole swung the axe over his shoulder; the blow shook the building, and the red baize door leaped against the lock and hinges.
9 To cast it in with Hyde, was to die to a thousand interests and aspirations, and to become, at a blow and for ever, despised and friendless.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
10 Mr. Bounderby, who was always more or less like a Wind, finding something in his way here, began to blow at it directly.
11 My injunction is, Keep it quiet, and let it seem to blow over.
12 The sudden and romantic appearance of his son in the lists at Ashby, he had justly regarded as almost a death's blow to his hopes.
13 There is more than mere strength, there seems as if the whole soul and spirit of the champion were given to every blow which he deals upon his enemies.
14 Accordingly, he raised his halberd, and would have laid the staff of it lustily on the Jew's shoulders, had not the Black Knight stopped the blow, and thereby transferred the Holy Clerk's resentment to himself.
15 The Friar bared his brawny arm up to the elbow, and putting his full strength to the blow, gave the Knight a buffet that might have felled an ox.
Example Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1 He was able to fend off the blow with his arm.
2 The winds blow across the sea, pushing little waves into bigger and bigger ones.
3 He struck him with a mighty blow across his shoulder.
4 He brought his arm up in a futile attempt to ward off the blow.
5 He raised his arm to try to deflect the blow.
6 The first blow is half the battle.
7 They used five tons of dynamite to blow up the rock.
8 Great winds blow upon high hills.
9 The victim suffered a blow to the head from a blunt instrument.
10 I agree that he was probably killed by a single blow and that wooden mallet on the table seems the likely weapon.
11 The wind began to build and the sleet to blow about.
12 It will be a devastating blow to the local community if the factory closes.
13 This will deal a blow to consumer confidence.
14 One mistake could blow your cover.
15 Be sure to blow up the tyres before you drive off.