blown up
Example Sentences
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For decades, cartoon canine Wile E. Coyote has been pursuing the speeding bird throughout the American Southwest, aiming to eat him and getting blown up in the process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Plus, you get to see Wile E. Coyote get blown up 100 times.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
“As this has blown up, I’ve just been like, ‘OK, cool, people like that song.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
Since posting her own content from the wedding, Austin said her social media profiles had "blown up", with one video racking up three million views.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Hatsue went out into the desert wind and returned with a few scraps of tar paper she’d found blown up against a roll of barbed wire along a firebreak.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
