How to Use blow off in a Sentence

blow off

verb
  • Cars and trucks were blown off roads.
    — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Legs blown off, arms blown off, faces blown off.
    — Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The sun is still high in the sky and the breeze blows off the ocean.
    — Stephen Krcmar, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • Find a way to blow off steam behind the scenes.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The story is about kids who had their legs blown off.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The story is about kids who had their heads blown off.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
  • And if the kids can blow off some steam in the process, that’s a plus.
    — Washington Post, 4 May 2022
  • How much blood would come out of my head and neck when it was blown off.
    — Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Their boat had run out of fuel and blown off course.
    — EW.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • People were all on the floor, some had their heads blown off.
    — Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 26 Dec. 2025
  • The man moved back and promptly had his leg blown off by a shell.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 25 Dec. 2025
  • When 'breakthrough tech' comes along, the ops team isn’t blown off course.
    — Claus Jepsen, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Public land turkeys get blown off roosts.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Prices of those shares have looked frothy for months, and now the froth looks to be blowing off.
    — Neil Irwin, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Need a break from all that thinking, or want to simply blow off some steam?
    — Vicki Salemi, Chron, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Others may own stock or trade it to blow off steam, as a form of gambling.
    — New York Times, 10 Apr. 2021
  • But each time, like Ulysses, they were blown off course by contrary winds.
    — Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The wind was so strong that the smallest among us were almost blown off our feet.
    — Kimberly McCreight, Time, 3 June 2026
  • In Park Manor, the roof at a winery was blown off.
    — Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tarps cover the area where the tornado blew off part of his roof.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The flight did not have passengers sitting next to the door that blew off.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Some vagrants get blown off course by storms, while others have been known to catch rides on boats.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Roofs were blown off houses and debris was scattered across yards.
    — Madeline King, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Gio pouts and, according to one source, breaks curfew to blow off steam.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Some sort of work, or work time adjacent, thing for people to blow off some steam.
    — Bob Kulhan, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The creepy town also has a creepy bar, where Gardner goes to blow off some steam.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Alfie and Mindy blow off Emily to make out in the street.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025

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