blow away

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Recent Examples of blow away Thorne was also blown away by Ramsey’s observation. Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 8 May 2025 After seeing the amount of focus and labor that Patrick has to put into writing just the opening sentence of the film, we were blown away by the range of emotions and scale of world that Patrick and Evan were able to build and squeeze into an eight minute short. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2025 While scrutinizing the Gaia data, Huson's team noticed several large voids — areas where supernova shockwaves have blown away the interstellar gas. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 30 Apr. 2025 The coaches — Ballerini, as well as Michael Bublé, John Legend, and Adam Levine — were blown away with his singular performance. Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blow away
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blow away
Verb
  • During a stretch in which the Twins are outscoring opponents 68-29, the team is receiving contributions from just about everyone on the roster while concurrently overcoming the mounting injuries.
    Dan Hayes, New York Times, 18 May 2025
  • Yet amid the devastation, a few glimmers of hope remain—Palestine’s U-20 national women’s team recently won the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) Championship, overcoming Jordan 4-2 in a penalty shootout in the final following a 1-1 draw.
    Samindra Kunti, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
Verb
  • When Russia began bombing Kyiv in 2022, the walls were blown away, exposing the old newspapers.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • On May 2, Israel bombed an area near the presidential palace in Damascus.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 17 May 2025
Verb
  • Cause of death: There are several causes of death because Ulric receives the nine lives of a cat: shot in the head, drowned, hanged, car crash, electrocuted, crossbow, stabbed, suffocated after burying himself alive. Sad or satisfying?
    Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 19 May 2025
  • The machine responded: one word, then another, and another—each new term inferred from the patterns buried in those seven thousand books.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Verb
  • Appropriately, those flags whipped atop the Hall of Fame building on a particularly windy Friday, hours before a 40-year ceremony for the 1985 team and a day prior to a 10-year reunion for the 2015 team.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 17 May 2025
  • Caballero looked on the verge of tears as the Ivorian whipped the ball into the corner, a heroic performance from a back-up goalkeeper who’d played in every previous round to repay manager Manuel Pellegrini’s faith.
    Thom Harris, New York Times, 17 May 2025
Verb
  • Angels outfielder Mike Trout, who went on the injured list May 2 with a left knee injury, did some throwing Friday and is continuing to progress in his rehab, but Washington said the team has no date for his return.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2025
  • The left-hander threw 50 of 85 pitches for strikes.
    Ethan Westerman, Arkansas Online, 17 May 2025
Verb
  • Follow the following design tips to master the art of styling your end table.
    Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 May 2025
  • Bridges, though, throughout an up-and-down season, has mastered adversity at every turn.
    James L. Edwards III, New York Times, 8 May 2025
Verb
  • The formula is a gel-cream that hydrates skin with such ingredients as collagen-boosting copper peptides, smoothing saccharide isomerate, moisture-retaining sodium PCA, and calming zinc oxide.
    Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 8 May 2025
  • Eyes dart, brows furrow, and Holliday lets slip a slight grin, before skinning that smoke wagon and firing one shot into Ringo’s forehead.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Jasmine Paolini upset American Coco Gauff to become the first Italian to win the Italian Open in 40 years.
    Sam Settleman, New York Times, 18 May 2025
  • At 34 years old, Stockman's youthful assurance and irreverence for sacred cows of all kinds soon upset many of his former colleagues on the Hill.
    Ron Elving, NPR, 17 May 2025

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