How to Use blowback in a Sentence

blowback

noun

• Maui county has got to deal with the blowback on the recovery.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
• But the good thing has, in fact, put us in the situation that has caused this blowback.
  — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• Chase was asked about whether there was blowback from his comments.
  — Irie Harris, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2023
• The Hall at that point could move on to other players without much blowback.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022
• The vote was met with blowback from Democrats and gun-control advocates.
  — Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023
• Amid public blowback, the WTA went with a different bid this year.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
• Few teams in this market have gone so far only to suffer such a bad case of blowback from the locals.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
• Public blowback may trigger greater volatility and lower growth for the first half of the year.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
• Some of their comments on the Thrones front include their reaction to the blowback from the show’s 2019 final season.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
• But the blowback has been fierce after the viral video found its way to J.K. Rowling fans and transphobes over the past few weeks, Flom said.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
• Still, trans students have dealt with their share of blowback during their time at Wellesley.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2023
• Publishing such books meant blowback, but that was a price Nordstrom was happy to pay.
  — Nell McShane Wulfhart, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• Today, despite the blowback, Sharpe stands by his research.
  — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
• The suggestion in the Kaplan report that has generated the most blowback is that the men’s and women’s Final Fours be held in the same city.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• The blowback from Republicans has been swift and vicious.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• The blowback was swift and immediate, the mockery inescapable.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 13 Nov. 2022
• Only after severe blowback did the FTC pause, then rapidly settle, the suit.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2023
• But the blowback from the invasion in the form of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s brief armed revolt fills out the picture.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 27 June 2023
• There was also some blowback that maybe people were being unfair to her.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
• On Capitol Hill, Greene flung her pebbles and stones unconcerned with any blowback.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
• In 2018, the academy announced the creation of a new best popular film award only to scrap the idea following a blowback.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• Hanging over the premiere is lingering chatter about the blowback against Thrones season eight.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• Kramer asked Torres pointedly whether the apology was rooted in the blowback or an acknowledgment of the harm that was done.
  — Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• His use of the term earned quick blowback from immigration advocates.
  — Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
• The platform has ramped up its public relations offensive in response to the blowback.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2023
• Jalali noted at the swearing-in ceremony that the historic first was not without blowback.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024
• The hearings had drawn blowback for their secrecy, before Mehta and Google reversed course to make more of the testimony public.
  — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• Courts work exactly as designed, Newsom and his allies could face some blowback.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2023
• The broader result of the efforts to reverse the trend, however, has been political blowback.
  — Michelle Garcia, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2023
• The blowback was harsh – members used social media to amplify their sense of betrayal, and many boycotted.
  — Jenn McMillen, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024