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blowing
[ bloh-ing ]
noun
- the sound of any vapor or gas issuing from a vent under pressure.
- Metallurgy. a disturbance caused by gas or steam blowing through molten metal.
- Also called blow mold·ing [bloh, mohl-ding]. a method of producing hollowware by injecting air under pressure into a molten mass, as of glass or plastic, and shaping the material within a mold.
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Example Sentences
Once again, blowing up in the first round of the playoffs for the third time in five years, the Lakers just weren’t good enough.
He waited until the board for four extra minutes went up before blowing kisses to his family in the stand and applauding the fans.
It increasingly seems like our world is dominated by two types of leaders: those guided by gleeful, vindictive spite, and those guided by wherever the wind happens to be blowing that day.
As he demonstrated last week at his very first news conference as the government’s top healthcare official, he was blowing smoke.
I just assume he couldn't recollect or revel in discussions about Count Basie and Duke Ellington and sitting on the bandstand and blowing trumpet with many other people, especially in Hollywood.
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