How to Use blow off in a Sentence

blow off

verb
  • The sun is still high in the sky and the breeze blows off the ocean.
    — Stephen Krcmar, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • And if the kids can blow off some steam in the process, that’s a plus.
    — Washington Post, 4 May 2022
  • What does Tyler the person like to do to blow off steam?
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024
  • At the start of the year, a door plug on a Boeing 737 Max 9 blew off mid-flight.
    — Juliana Kim, NPR, 16 Sep. 2024
  • There are many other ways to bond and to blow off steam.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Prices of those shares have looked frothy for months, and now the froth looks to be blowing off.
    — Neil Irwin, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024
  • My dad was in the ICU, but their tennis shoes got blown off of their feet.
    — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 3 July 2024
  • When 'breakthrough tech' comes along, the ops team isn’t blown off course.
    — Claus Jepsen, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • When 'breakthrough tech' comes along, the ops team isn’t blown off course.
    — Claus Jepsen, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The guard blew off the lock with a gun, and the man was found alone inside the cell, under a blanket.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The run came to a screeching halt in Week 4 against the Oregon Ducks as the Buffaloes were blown off the field.
    — Joe Morgan, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • There are air vents on the sides to help prevent the cover from being blown off in the wind.
    — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2023
  • His right arm and right leg had been blown off by a bomb, and flesh was still hanging off the foot.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Photos show the front of the building is damaged and the facade was blown off.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 29 May 2024
  • Dyches says the restaurant flooded and the roof blew off.
    — Sarah McCammon, NPR, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The flight did not have passengers sitting next to the door that blew off.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • So our problem is not that we’re getting blown off the ball.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The owner of the White Sox since 1981, he is known for blowing off reporters.
    — Nick Hirshon, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Strong plays Paul, part of a group of city kids who decide to party in the woods to blow off some steam.
    — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The creepy town also has a creepy bar, where Gardner goes to blow off some steam.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2021
  • This isn’t about a group of people who go up a mountain and get blown off by a storm.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2025
  • It was blown off course up through Alaska and then down through the United States.
    — Matthew Lee, ajc, 21 June 2023
  • Tarps cover the area where the tornado blew off part of his roof.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Tarps cover the area where the tornado blew off part of his roof.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2025
  • But each time, like Ulysses, they were blown off course by contrary winds.
    — Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The White House on Friday blew off a host of questions over Biden’s absence from the talks.
    — Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Others may own stock or trade it to blow off steam, as a form of gambling.
    — New York Times, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Fraser tends to blow off talk of a comeback, but that’s what The Whale is gifting him with.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Need a break from all that thinking, or want to simply blow off some steam?
    — Vicki Salemi, Chron, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Things go from routine to catastrophic when the team’s helicopter gets blown off course in a freak storm and crash-lands in the DPRK.
    — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025

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