blasting
Example Sentences
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The Dunlap broadside was a broadside in a figurative sense as well as a literal one, blasting its message like cannons fired from the side of a warship.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, is some 40,000 miles from Earth after blasting off late Wednesday atop a 320-foot-tall SLS rocket.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
Players tried to hype themselves up in the locker room by blasting music.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026
But while forecasting and blasting techniques have improved in recent years, it is not impossible for avalanches to hit pistes that have been declared safe.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
Wielaf said, “He made the debris to the upper level by blasting out some columns and stuff. He climbed it. Then left the way you all came in.”
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.