blowoff

Example Sentences

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“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

Others reckoned that last week's pulling and pushing set the base for a blowoff, or sudden and possibly spectacular advance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not until early 1940 did the blowoff finally come.

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