blowing up
Example Sentences
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The blowing wind sent rain sneaking sideways under umbrellas on the street, but the couple didn’t have one for protection anyway.
From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2023
“In the blowing wind, trying to scoop up poop and put it in a little vial.”
From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2023
“The desert is God’s canvas,” José is fond of saying, but the sounds of blowing wind, barely audible throughout most of the play, drive home the incompleteness of this aphorism.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2015
"Man is free, but he is only free if he believes himself to be … The only system I have had ... is that of letting myself go where the blowing wind took me."
From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2013
She ran down the street, through the blowing wind and drizzling rain and darkness to her own house.
From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart
