How to Use blow off in a Sentence

blow off

verb

• 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
• There are many other ways to bond and to blow off steam.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The creepy town also has a creepy bar, where Gardner goes to blow off some steam.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2021
• It was blown off course up through Alaska and then down through the United States.
  — Matthew Lee, ajc, 21 June 2023
• 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
• Gio pouts and, according to one source, breaks curfew to blow off steam.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
• Then on top of it, the number of men that literally got their heads blown off.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 21 Mar. 2024
• Some sort of work, or work time adjacent, thing for people to blow off some steam.
  — Bob Kulhan, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• While taking cover in a bomb shelter, a grenade blew off Hersh's arm from the elbow down.
  — Andrea Mandell, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
• The militants opened fire and threw grenades, and Goldberg-Polin's arm was blown off, his parents said.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2023
• Burrow then found Hayden Hurst for a touchdown about a minute later and the suite felt like its roof was about to blow off.
  — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2022
• Instead, The Strait’s course primary defense—aside from the strong winds that often blow off the lake—are its bunkers.
  — Shaun Tolson, Robb Report, 2 July 2022
• One audit dealt with the component that blew off the Alaska Airlines jet, known as a door plug.
  — Mark Walker, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• Youth in Elk Grove will have a chance to blow off some steam and vent during a mental health event this Saturday.
  — Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• A day of work is best followed by a night of fun, so think about hitting the town with a friend or two and blowing off some steam later.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2023
• Bolts were missing from a door plug that blew off a Boeing plane in January.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
• And the roof of at least one building in San Francisco partially blew off.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Val’s middle son, Eric, and his wife, Lei, who lived about a mile down the road with their three young sons, called: Their apartment’s roof had blown off.
  — Anumita Kaur, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Pieces of roofing and heavy panels for a solar water heater had been blown off and were landing on his fence.
  — Riley Mellen, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• In gruesome footage posted by his captors, Goldberg-Polin is shown packed into the back of a truck, his arm blown off by a grenade.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
• Don’t ignore, demand, or blow off this friendship just yet.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
• Winds blew off six windows at the Justice Center downtown.
  — Molly Walsh | [e-mail], cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024