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How to use blow in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun, interjection

Blow means to produce an air current. Example: “Blow the dust off that book and open it up.”

Examples of blow by meaning

verbTo propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.

  • Blow the dust off that book and open it up.
  • In Koksan County, strong winds blew the roofs off homes, while torrential rains poked holes in or collapsed the walls of houses.2022 July 6, Kim Chae Hwan, “North Hwanghae Province hit hard by torrential rains”, in Daily NK, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2022

verbTo be propelled by an air current.

  • The leaves blow through the streets in the fall.
  • What stormy weather —the roofs are blowing off!

verbTo create or shape by blowing.

  • to blow bubbles
  • to blow glass
  • Joe puffed on his pipe and blew a couple of smoke rings.

verbTo force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.

  • to blow the fire

verbTo clear of contents by forcing air through.

  • to blow an egg
  • to blow one’s nose
  • The submarine blew its main ballast tanks.

verbTo cause to make sound by blowing (as a musical instrument).

  • Blow your horn! That car is about to hit us!

verbTo make a sound as a result of being blown.

  • In the harbor, the ships’ horns blew.

verbTo exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.

  • There’s nothing more thrilling to the whale watcher than to see a whale surface and blow.
  • There she blows! (i.e. “I see a whale spouting!”)

More sentences with blow

  • I burst the balloon when I blew it up too much.From the entry burst
  • Every once in a while, though, Idol comes across an unusual talent who just blows everyone away.From the entry unusual
  • The wind blew through her hair as she stood on the deck of the ship.From the entry wind
  • Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.From the entry wedge
  • When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father.From the entry cop
  • When he pushed the detonator, the bang blew him off his feet.From the entry bang
  • A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.From the entry moor
  • Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.From the entry chamber
  • After weeks of blowing smoke, her credibility with me was next to nil.From the entry credibility
  • She blew the dust off the cookbook, revealing its full title.From the entry blow off
  • The radioactivity was released when they blew off steam from the containment vessel.From the entry blow off
  • The bomber had passed through one checkpoint before blowing himself up at a second barrier.From the entry barrier
  • A wisp of smoke rose from the candle for a few moments after he blew it out.From the entry wisp
  • The evisceration of the animal was accomplished with a single blow of the knife.From the entry evisceration
  • They fired tear gas at us, except the wind was blowing the wrong way.From the entry except
  • The boxer went down in the second round, after a blow to the chin.From the entry go down
  • The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.From the entry chill
  • The police officer was incapacitated by a blow to the head.From the entry incapacitate
  • The herald blew his trumpet and shouted that the King was dead.From the entry herald
  • Don't take it personally when he shouts like that. He's just blowing off steam.From the entry blow off steam
  • I told her she could call me and talk any time she wanted to blow off steam.From the entry blow off steam
  • Pin down the tablecloth, so it doesn't blow away in the breeze.From the entry pin down
  • Trying blowing up it at an angle instead of directly across it.From the entry blow up
  • Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff?From the entry blow up
  • You cannot simply wait for a problem like that to blow over.From the entry blow over

Meaning of blow

  1. verb To produce an air current.
  2. verb To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
  3. verb To be propelled by an air current.

Full definition of blow

Questions about blow in a sentence

How do you use blow in a sentence?
Blow is used as a verb, noun and interjection. For example: “Blow the dust off that book and open it up.”
What is a short sentence with blow?
“to blow bubbles”
What does blow mean?
Blow means to produce an air current.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: blow (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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