blow it
Example Sentences
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The lower your investment, the less of a crushing blow it can be if it doesn’t work out.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
"So we're going to blow it in situ."
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
An L.A. city councilman, at his wit’s end, joked that the city could end the smog problem by adopting a resolution “creating an eight-mile-an-hour wind” to blow it all away.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
An account holder who decides to, say, blow it on a trip to Cancún could owe $406 in federal income taxes and a $338 penalty on the withdrawal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
The barge was empty, and from the blow it sounded as if our arrival to Flushing had been announced with a Chinese gong.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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