How to Use blowup in a Sentence

blowup

1 of 2 noun

• The blowup of the photograph was easy to frame.
• The two of them had a big blowup about something trivial.
• The coach's latest blowup occurred when one of his players arrived late.
• As always, too much debt is at the heart of any blowup.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2021
• The play builds to a blowup that could have reasonably happened at the end of the first act.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• And his death — and the blowup in the kitchen after Mohammed’s — seems to be taking a toll.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• After a slow buildup, the next blowup was on his birthday in March.
  — Doug Smithsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• Less than 48 hours after the blowup, both were able to laugh off the bad two minutes.
  — Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2020
• There was his blowup on the bench during a loss to the Toronto Raptors on Dec. 31.
  — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2020
• Tina shipped him pillows and a blowup mattress and more.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
• But the email exchange was many hours after our blowup.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 26 June 2021
• Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 13 June 2023
• If Chile seems an unlikely flash point, why the blowup there?
  — John Authers | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
• There was a huge media blowup over this aspect of the story.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2021
• Shock waves from the latest blowup leave the landscape unclear.
  — Erica Werner, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• There’s a good chance that your blowup mattress has seen better days.
  — Cnn Underscored Staff, CNN Underscored, 27 Nov. 2020
• Dodd-Frank was enacted to guard against an SVB-type blowup.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2023
• Mack stays in touch with the youth, who at first didn’t want to participate in anything and was prone to blowups.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023
• Spoelstra suggested Wednesday's blowup could help the Heat in the long run.
  — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2022
• The locker room blowup on Friday became the tipping point.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 18 Jan. 2021
• But the blowup of FTX tipped the scales, causing Genesis to pause all redemptions.
  — John Hyatt, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• In fact, the rare blowup for money funds centered on what was the original money fund, launched in 1970.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
• Fresh off a blowup fight with Allison about their mom, Lennon urges Bruce to tell Allison the truth.
  — Benjamin Rosenstock, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2021
• The world has far bigger problems than a blowup at Buckingham Palace.
  — Sam Walker, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
• The Nets seemed to be on the verge of a blowup this summer, with any Durant trade likely sending him to a team already better than the Bulls.
  — Jason Patt, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• Arizona had dropped to 5 ½ games back in the NL wild-card race after a bullpen blowup led to a 12-6 loss to Miami Tuesday night.
  — sun-sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• The bullpen blowup muted a big hit by Seattle native Bobby Dalbec, whose home run in the top of the ninth inning gave the Sox a 6-5 lead.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022
• After their blowup, Love reaches under her skirt and finds blood.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• Kweli had quickly forgotten the brief blowups, both mine and Matilda’s.
  — Anja Mutic, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2023
• Don’t be available for and responsive to every phone blowup, and let her whine to your mom, and let your mom message you.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 June 2021

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blow up

2 of 2 verb

• He got blown up three times in Afghanistan in 2008, like big booms.
  — Quil Lawrence, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
• The Boss saw the Astros blow up the chicken man in Philly.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2022
• The show was so well received that some of those songs did blow up.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• The mistakes here aren’t the ones that will blow up your entire life.
  — Erin Browne, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2022
• The phone was absolutely the seeds of the whole blowing up.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 1 Oct. 2023
• This has the potential to blow up in all of your faces and the one who will be most hurt by this is the wife.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
• Poised to even it, 1-1, the Bruins for a second day in a row watched their boo-boo blow up big time.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
• That’s the most Jody response — don’t blow up your life, but just start somewhere.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024
• This is not to suggest that Chaim Bloom blow up his vaunted plan.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
• Less than a month later, the blockchain world would blow up at the hands of a bogus crypto king in the Bahamas.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2022
• At the Met, the opera felt like a movie of the week blown up to CinemaScope dimensions.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Shells or rockets rained down, and blew up the Russian FPV base.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• At around that same time, my savings and loan blew up, got taken over by the Feds and some of the management went to jail.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
• Weeks after a dam was blown up in Ukraine, the collapse continues to cause strife.
  — USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• Katie Haun launched a $1.5 billion crypto fund—and then the industry blew up.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2023
• Any hack can make stuff blow up real good; Cameron makes stuff glow up real good.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• After the shot, McCarville’s phone blew up with texts, calls and more from friends and family alike.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
• That was when Brazil’s national angst began to blow up, too.
  — Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
• That casing of the governor’s summer home was part of a plot to blow up a bridge near that home and kidnap her.
  — Ben Kesling, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
• But the big house on the estate had been blown up, because of the death duty (inheritance tax).
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2024
• One of your cutting-edge ideas could blow up, or you might be offered a too-good-to-refuse job completely out of the blue.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
• The latest trend blowing up on social media is fruit roll-ups and ice cream.
  — Hollyanna McCollom, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Mar. 2023
• For all of that, the rocket and spacecraft ultimately blew up.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2023
• It's blown up on platforms like TikTok as being a cure for sleep issues and headaches.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2023
• Many soldiers struggle with aggression, but none has blown up at the school.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
• This pool float can be blown up in a few minutes manually or with a pump.
  — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2023
• As the business of hip-hop blew up, the left-leaning politics of hip-hop began to recede from view.
  — Timmhotep Aku, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
• Dumb bombs and artillery blow up buildings for the sole purpose of scaring people.
  — The New York Times The New York Times, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
• The members of the group rebuked gangster rap and blew up on the hip-hop scene with a smooth, sophisticated sound.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• In the end, Aldrich holed up in the mother’s home, threatening to blow up the place as police swarmed and deployed bomb-sniffing dogs.
  — Jim Mustian, Colleen Slevin and Bernard Condon, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024