blown up

Example Sentences

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"Things can get spoken about and blown-up pretty heavily. I feel for them, in a way. It can be tricky."

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025

Tupac Shakur, dressed in a suit, stared somberly from a blown-up photo that was erected on an easel like at a memorial service.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2023

Myriad embellished baubles — almost resembling wet pearls — organically dripped off a blown-up bolero jacket as if it had been created for a seaborne princess.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2023

The smiling faces of Previte’s family members captured in blown-up photographs on a front wall help make it so.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2023

She stuffed the blown-up photo of the strange man’s blurry face into it along with the phone-book page and ran downstairs again.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd