How to Use blow off in a Sentence

blow off

verb

• 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 guard blew off the lock with a gun, and the man was found alone inside the cell, under a blanket.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 16 Dec. 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
• So our problem is not that we’re getting blown off the ball.
  — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2025
• The owner of the White Sox since 1981, he is known for blowing off reporters.
  — Nick Hirshon, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2024
• Strong plays Paul, part of a group of city kids who decide to party in the woods to blow off some steam.
  — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 30 Oct. 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
• The White House on Friday blew off a host of questions over Biden’s absence from the talks.
  — Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 26 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Part of our chimney blew off and crashed into the driveway.
  — Lesley M. M. Blume, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2025
• Or blowing off plans with your friends because your SO wants to hang.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 13 Dec. 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
• 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
• Invert a few times to infuse for about seven to 10 seconds, then open the container and blow off the smoke.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 18 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 8 Mar 2025