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

Direct cause of the blowoff was Republican cross-examination of General of the Army George C. Marshall, which consumed seven days while a plane stood by to rush the General to his urgent job in China.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new blowoff came when the studios instituted wholesale firings of carpenters and painters belonging to the A.F.L.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps there is some major and as yet undiscovered atmospheric constituent—nitrogen, for example—which keeps the average molecular weight of the atmosphere high and prevents blowoff.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan