blowing
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] /ˈbloʊ ˌmoʊl dɪŋ/ . 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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How to use blowing in a sentence
Dinner was a baroque affair, on the beach, a warm breeze gently blowing.
Hollywood might possibly fear North Korean sleeper cells capable of blowing up theaters that screen anti-Nork films.
Pyongyang Shuffle: Hollywood In Dead Panic Over Sony Hack | James Poulos | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLindsey Graham can barely get ISIS out of his mouth before blowing his shpadoinkle and screeching "we may all get killed!"
The Fear About Things That Won't Kill Us Is Killing Us | Cliff Schecter | October 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat candidate, Joni Ernst, did herself no favors yesterday by blowing off the editorial board of The Des Moines Register.
Did Charlie Crist break the rules by having a fan blowing on his crotch during the Florida guberntorial debate?
But there was a breeze blowing, a choppy, stiff wind that whipped the water into froth.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinIt was a cloudy, stormy evening: high wind was blowing, and the branches of the trees groaned and creaked above our heads.
He laid it upon the floor, and took out a plaster mask, and brushing and blowing off the saw-dust, held it up.
Checkmate | Joseph Sheridan Le FanuYet, so curiously constituted is the native mind, the blowing-up of the magazine was the final tocsin of revolt.
The Red Year | Louis TracyThe Southern sun shone from a cloudless sky; a light, keen wind blowing from the distant snow-clad Canigou set the blood tingling.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. Locke
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