blasting
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.
He had seen dozens of such blastings, and he knew what great chasms were blown out of the solid rock.
From The Vicar's People by Fenn, George Manville
Then there were public fasts quite frequently, "because of sins, blastings, mildews, drought, grasshoppers, caterpillars, small pox," "loss of cattle by cold and frowns of Providence."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
We finally decided on the latter plan, as, in spite of our blastings about wanting to shake hands with the presiding devil, we really had no great hankering to meet him after dark.
From Bert Wilson at Panama by Duffield, J. W.
The indications, in his judgment, were not without promise that a system of judiciously-applied blastings might open up a source of water that would transform this dreadful barrenness into something quite different.
From The Golden Fleece, a romance by Hawthorne, Julian
The crowded space between the heights and the river, filled by the railway, canal, and turnpike, was made by blastings from the southern extremities of Maryland Heights.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James
