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How to use blast in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, interjection

Blast means a violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle). Example: “Many tons of iron were melted at a blast.”

Examples of blast by meaning

nounA violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).

  • Their warm, thick under covering of fine wool protects them from the coldest blasts.1915 April, Enos A. Mills, “Wild Mountain Sheep”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37

nounThe continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.

  • Many tons of iron were melted at a blast.
  • Blast was produced by bellows worked by four 'blowers', three of whom worked at a time while the fourth stood ready to replace one of the others.1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 146

nounAn explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.

  • She caught the full impact of the blast.
  • Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43

nounA verbal attack or punishment; a severe criticism or reprimand.

  • My manager gave me a blast yesterday for coming in late.
  • Department a blast in the papers about sending misdirected letters of mine back to the writers for reshipment, and got a blast in return, through a New York daily, from the New York postmaster.1917 [1874], Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], edited by Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain's letters, volume 1, page 226

nounA good time; an enjoyable moment.

  • We had a blast at the party last night.

nounA promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.

  • an e-mail blast; a fax blast

nounA period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to a period of reduced intake.

  • blast and cruise

verbTo play (music) very loudly out of a speaker.

  • Some kid is in his car blasting rap.2008 April 24, neilc...@yahoo.com, “ARRMO FEST”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal.oldschool (Usenet)
  • There was no flutter of claws requiring me to blast a tape.2022, Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language, Random House Publishing Group

More sentences with blast

  • The surprising blast of cold water on my face was a tremendous shock.From the entry shock
  • The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.From the entry industry
  • The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.From the entry grit
  • The rescue team managed to suppress the flow of oil by blasting the drilling hole.From the entry suppress
  • Jones launches a Ruthian blast; it lands high in the upper deck.From the entry Ruthian
  • A blast furnace decarbonizes iron enough that it can be used as input to a steelmaking furnace.From the entry decarbonize
  • They were blasting away at each other for 10 minutes before the shooting died down.From the entry blast away
  • Last year we had a blast; this year will be even more blastworthy.From the entry blastworthy
  • It really rustles my jimmies when my roommate blasts his stereo all day.From the entry rustle someone's jimmies
  • Material with low excavatability may require blasting or the use of percussion hammers to facilitate excavation.From the entry excavatability
  • He was kicked sideways by the force of the blast.From the entry kick
  • The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.From the entry load
  • The blast furnace flared in the night.From the entry flare
  • The TV is blasting. Please turn it down!From the entry blasting
  • The horn section delivered a powerful midsong blast.From the entry midsong
  • Staying informed is important, but let's not lose ourselves in despondency over the doomerism that blasts our eyeballs everyday.From the entry lose oneself
  • The rock was all toput from the blast.From the entry toput
  • The speakers are blasting out their announcements.From the entry blast out
  • Music was blasting out from their house.From the entry blast out
  • Powder rends a rock in blasting.From the entry rend
  • The ding-a-ling from the fire truck somehow filled him with more dread than its horn blasts could: for whom does that bell toll?From the entry ding-a-ling
  • Attempts to fuse and defluorinate rock phosphate by feeding the finely ground material into the flame of a blast lamp were not successful.From the entry defluorinate
  • It prevents our atmosphere from being stripped away by solar winds blasting it from the sun.2023 December 27, Mindy Weisberger, “Ancient bricks baked when Nebuchadnezzar II was king absorbed a power surge in Earth’s magnetic…. From the entry atmosphere
  • Defying musket and cannon blast, they berserk preemptively against the Tlaxcaltecah.2023, David Bowles, Guadalupe García McCall, Secret of the Moon Conch, Bloomsbury YA, →ISBN. From the entry berserk
  • So you're, like, the kaishao boy." His judgy eyebrow is on full blast.2023, Mae Coyiuto, Chloe and the Kaishao Boys, pages 74–75. From the entry kaishao
  • People drove their SUVs to grocery stores two blocks away, their air-conditioning on full blast.2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 103. From the entry Huntsville
  • Another blast rippled the air, and an elephantish man by the doors collapsed.2020, Matt Ward, Wolfish: A YA Dystopian Sci-Fi Techno Thriller, Myrmani LLC, unnumbered page. From the entry elephantish
  • Pretty Lights blasts from invisible speakers, making Lion think about candyflipping back in high school.2019, Steven Kotler, Last Tango in Cyberspace, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN. From the entry candy flipping

Meaning of blast

  1. noun A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).
  2. noun A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the tuyeres of a blast furnace, a person's mouth, etc.
  3. noun A hit of a recreational drug from a pipe.

Full definition of blast

Questions about blast in a sentence

How do you use blast in a sentence?
Blast is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “Many tons of iron were melted at a blast.”
What is a short sentence with blast?
“blast and cruise”
What does blast mean?
Blast means a violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).

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