blowoff

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“Even before the pandemic, people thought of Friday as a kind of blowoff day. And now there’s a growing expectation that you can work from home to jump-start your weekend.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2022

“I did kind of think it would be a blowoff class.”

From Washington Post • May 16, 2019

The Army began heading full tilt toward a blowoff last winter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just before the blowoff, from Berlin came a dreamy interview with General Tomoyuki Yamashita, head of the Japanese military mission to the Axis, giving his impressions of Hitler.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or perhaps blowoff is happening, but the gases lost to space are being replenished by others released from the satellite’s interior.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan