How to Use blowback in a Sentence

blowback

noun

• The extent of the blowback on the U.S. is anyone's guess.
  — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
• Even an act of grace gets a touch of blowback these days.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 2021
• Smith had to deal with blowback from both peers and strangers.
  — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 14 July 2021
• Maui county has got to deal with the blowback on the recovery.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
• But the good thing has, in fact, put us in the situation that has caused this blowback.
  — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• And there’s always a little bit of blowback that comes with that.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
• Hosts have to judge whether diners have complied, and to deal with any blowback.
  — New York Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• Chase was asked about whether there was blowback from his comments.
  — Irie Harris, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2023
• The blowback comes from some customers, a group of Democrats in Congress and civil rights groups.
  — Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
• The Hall at that point could move on to other players without much blowback.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022
• The bad The Supreme Court reform grenade is already causing blowback, though.
  — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 July 2024
• Made in 2007, the film foreshadows the eventual blowback of the U.S. support of the mujahideen.
  — Keith Staskiewicz, EW.com, 26 June 2024
• The vote was met with blowback from Democrats and gun-control advocates.
  — Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023
• Lapses in judgement can happen in a split second, and the blowback for the brand and the harm done to the campaign can be enormous.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• If those who sought and issued this warrant don’t have their ducks in a row, then the blowback will be intense.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
• Amid public blowback, the WTA went with a different bid this year.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
• But while the sanctions are aimed at Russia, Americans will feel some of the blowback.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2022
• Few teams in this market have gone so far only to suffer such a bad case of blowback from the locals.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
• The blowback against Philip Morris from the health-care community has been swift and harsh.
  — Time, 12 Aug. 2021
• There also was concern about the blowback that would occur if such an airstrike went awry in any way.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2021
• The blowback in customer service jobs has been at times severe.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2021
• Public blowback may trigger greater volatility and lower growth for the first half of the year.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
• The latest sanctions, as Biden has stated, could run into blowback on the U.S. this time as well.
  — NBC News, 25 Feb. 2022
• There may be tinges of blowback from all of the outside interference in the district.
  — cleveland, 24 July 2021
• So much so there’s been a lot of blowback for his recent public statement.
  — ABC News, 12 May 2024
• In the wake of its full-scale attack of Ukraine, Russia has faced swift economic blowback.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022
• Some of their comments on the Thrones front include their reaction to the blowback from the show’s 2019 final season.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
• But the blowback has been fierce after the viral video found its way to J.K. Rowling fans and transphobes over the past few weeks, Flom said.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
• The mercurial billionaire does, however, have a history of deleting tweets after excessive blowback or just because.
  — Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 3 Feb. 2025
• The president defended issuing mass pardons to the rioters charged, including violent offenders, a decision that has drawn heavy blowback from Democrats and criticism from some Republican lawmakers.
  — Filip Timotija, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 6 Mar 2025