How to Use blow off in a Sentence

blow off

verb

• The owner of the White Sox since 1981, he is known for blowing off reporters.
  — Nick Hirshon, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But each time, like Ulysses, they were blown off course by contrary winds.
  — Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
• 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
• If that lifted the roof, it almost got blown off its walls as James wound up and sunk his first practice dunk.
  — Gadi Schwartz, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Hamas fighters threw grenades into the bunker, and part of Goldberg-Polin’s left arm was blown off in the explosion.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Still, there’s nothing like some shirtless handball to blow off some steam.
  — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024