blow in
Example Sentences
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The battling qualities so rightly associated with arguably the finest golfer of all time came to the fore at the 15th, as his approach from 164 yards dropped at blow-in range.
From The Guardian
Roblero-Gomez said her mother’s home got blow-in insulation in the attic, plastic wrap and caulk for the windows and high-efficiency light bulbs.
From Washington Times
His lesser stories have the gravitas of a magazine subscription blow-in card.
From New York Times
I liked nothing more than a blow-in or a hurricane vagrant: a tiny warbler from the knitted forests of eastern Siberia, catapulted to a treeless Fair Isle on Europe’s western edge; an ocean-going fulmar forced to crouch in the lee of a wheelie-bin outside a fish-and-chip shop in Bedford, after hitting wild weather in the North Sea.
From The Guardian
For all his aloofness, they still claim the blow-in poet as one of their own.
From New York Times
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