blow away
verb
blew away; blown away; blowing away; blows away
1
: to dissipate or remove as if with a current of air
their doubts were blown away
2
: to kill by gunfire : shoot dead
3
: to impress very strongly and usually favorably
4
: to defeat soundly
blew their rivals away in the first game
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Examples of blow away in a Sentence
the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion
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Tesla blew away expectations in its third quarter with higher deliveries that helped deliver better-than-expected profit of $2.17 billion, up 17.3% from a year ago.
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
Those in the audience who had been picturing tiny little hand puppets were blown away by the larger-than-life size of the animals.
—April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 10 Oct. 2024
Once again, the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly Jobs Report astonished economists and market observers by revealing that 254,000 jobs were created last month, blowing away predictions of 140,000, while the unemployment rate ticked down from 4.2% to 4.1%.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
This is not the first time I’ve been told this in an interview, and every time I’m always blown away, because that didn’t go viral.
—Katie Drummond, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
Those in the audience who had been picturing tiny little hand puppets were blown away by the larger-than-life size of the animals.
—April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 10 Oct. 2024
Once again, the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly Jobs Report astonished economists and market observers by revealing that 254,000 jobs were created last month, blowing away predictions of 140,000, while the unemployment rate ticked down from 4.2% to 4.1%.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
This is not the first time I’ve been told this in an interview, and every time I’m always blown away, because that didn’t go viral.
—Katie Drummond, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
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