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How to use blowout in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Blowout means a sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire. Example: “The game between the two teams was nothing but a blowout.”

Examples of blowout by meaning

nounA social function, especially one with large quantities of food.

  • Feathers were deeply ruffled when it became known that the BHC had been in town and taken me out for a meal without hosting a big blowout for all the local Brits.2015, Trish Nicholson, Inside the Crocodile: The Papua New Guinea Journals, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN
  • Erik's cousin is a Barnie and is hosting a blowout tonight.2016, Blayne Cooper, Blind Side of the Moon, Bella Books, →ISBN

nounA large or extravagant meal.

  • The dining room at Alain Ducasse's flagship Paris restaurant gleams with 10,000 crystals, confirming that this is the flashiest place in town for a blowout meal.2011, Fodor's Normandy, Brittany & the Best of the North: with Paris

nounA contest that is decidedly one-sided; an overwhelming victory or defeat.

  • The game between the two teams was nothing but a blowout.
  • Or as it's known in soccer, a blowout.2014, Norm Macdonald Live, season 2, episode 12, spoken by Norm Macdonald
  • This is not a land of blowouts.2023 May 4, Frank Bruni, “Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2023

nounAn instance of having one's hair blow-dried and styled.

  • Get a blowout!2007, Janis Spindel, How to Date Men: Dating Secrets from America's Top Matchmaker, Penguin, →ISBN, page 55
  • I mean, how did the African sista' who was getting her hair braided in the first movie get a blowout?2011, Donna Kakonge, PhD Student, The Politics of Black Hair Online Coursebook, →ISBN
  • A couple of weeks later, I contacted Melissa to get a blowout for my hair because I was going to New York for an interview but I had to be in the city early in the morning.2017, Anysia Marcell Kiel, Discovering the Healer Within: Use Chakras & Intuition to Clear Negativity & Release Pain, Llewellyn Worldwide...

More sentences with blowout

  • The young college quarterback was on the third-string, and played only during blowouts.From the entry third-string
  • The tires had been overinflated, leading to a blowout.From the entry overinflate
  • I play for two minutes of garbage time at the end of a blowout?1991, Kathleen Warnock, To the Top, page 16. From the entry garbage time
  • The conclusion itself turned into the kind of dunkfest for bench players usually reserved for rec league blowouts.2007, Roland Lazenby, Mindgames: Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey. From the entry dunkfest
  • It was the hoedowns and the caucuses and the rubber chicken dinners and the big DFL blowouts at the Minneapolis Auditorium.1997, Jim Klobuchar, Minstrel: My Adventure in Newspapering, page 88. From the entry rubber chicken
  • Mislights, blowouts, or stalls should not occur since there is more than enough adequate margin to allow for normal transient operation.1983, International Journal of Turbo & Jet-engines - Volume 1, page 236. From the entry mislight
  • Between fuel concentrations A and B, the blowout of a lifted flame occurs at a lower velocity than the flame blowoff from the port.2024, Allan T. Kirkpatrick, Kenneth K. Kuo, Principles of Combustion, page 289. From the entry blowoff
  • Top-ranked Maryland (16-0) opened Atlantic Coast Conference play in the same fashion it handled the nonleague portion of its schedule: with a blowout victory.2007 January 4, Bill Finley, “Seton Hall Starts Big East Play on Right Track, Beating Rutgers”, in New York Times. From the entry nonleague
  • The Mets’ lineup, which has not produced a multirun inning since a Game 3 blowout in the Dodgers’ series, will bring their slingshots and go for another knockout.2015 October 17, Tyler Kepner, “Two Aces Down, Two More to Go in the Mets’ Path”, in New York Times. From the entry multirun

Meaning of blowout

  1. noun A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
  2. noun A sudden release of oil and gas from a well.
  3. noun A social function, especially one with large quantities of food.

Full definition of blowout

Questions about blowout in a sentence

How do you use blowout in a sentence?
Blowout is used as a noun. For example: “The game between the two teams was nothing but a blowout.”
What is a short sentence with blowout?
“Get a blowout!”
What does blowout mean?
Blowout means a sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.

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