blast off
Example Sentences
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The next inning, he delivered a two-run double, and in the fourth, he mashed a two-run blast off the right-field scoreboard to put the Cubs up 5-1.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
China, after all, is scheduled to put men on the moon by 2030, though not before Artemis III and IV blast off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
I was filled with the same hope I had as a pre-teen watching Apollo 11 blast off for the historic moon landing.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026
Artemis II is slated to blast off at about 6:24 p.m.
From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026
We’d huddle together in a shuttle constructed out of chairs and bedsheets, and in T minus ten we’d blast off into space, visit the moon, Mars, the asteroid belt and beyond.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
