blow away
verb
blew away; blown away; blowing away; blows away
1
: to dissipate or remove as if with a current of air
their doubts were blown away
2
: to kill by gunfire : shoot dead
3
: to impress very strongly and usually favorably
4
: to defeat soundly
blew their rivals away in the first game
Examples of blow away in a Sentence
the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion
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The hardest dude on the street was blown away by De La Soul because their expression gave us multiple colors through music.
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Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
Oddly, Inaba wasn’t blown away.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
Basically, most buildings would be blown away by an EF4 tornado, so there are few left standing to encounter EF5 damage.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
Dansby Swanson was blown away to start the bottom of the eighth.
—Dennis Lin, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
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Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
Oddly, Inaba wasn’t blown away.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
Basically, most buildings would be blown away by an EF4 tornado, so there are few left standing to encounter EF5 damage.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
Dansby Swanson was blown away to start the bottom of the eighth.
—Dennis Lin, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for blow away
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“Blow away.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blow%20away. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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