How to Use blowup in a Sentence

blowup

1 of 3 noun

• The blowup of the photograph was easy to frame.
• The two of them had a big blowup about something trivial.
• The coach's latest blowup occurred when one of his players arrived late.
• But Trump couldn’t see the trip through without a blowup.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 30 May 2017
• As always, too much debt is at the heart of any blowup.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2021
• Indeed, there have been some big blowups along the way.
  — Priya Ganapati, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2009
• The Mets went 5-5 over those 10 games with some major bullpen blowups.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 6 July 2024
• The play builds to a blowup that could have reasonably happened at the end of the first act.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• And his death — and the blowup in the kitchen after Mohammed’s — seems to be taking a toll.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• After a slow buildup, the next blowup was on his birthday in March.
  — Doug Smithsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• Less than 48 hours after the blowup, both were able to laugh off the bad two minutes.
  — Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2020
• But what will be the impact of the Singapore summit and the G-7 blowup?
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 14 June 2018
• There was his blowup on the bench during a loss to the Toronto Raptors on Dec. 31.
  — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2020
• Tina shipped him pillows and a blowup mattress and more.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
• But the email exchange was many hours after our blowup.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 26 June 2021
• Well, at long last, the state of Illinois is about to expose just how big this blowup could be.
  — Laurie Meisler, Bloomberg.com, 30 June 2017
• Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 13 June 2023
• If Chile seems an unlikely flash point, why the blowup there?
  — John Authers | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
• There was a huge media blowup over this aspect of the story.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2021
• Shock waves from the latest blowup leave the landscape unclear.
  — Erica Werner, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• There’s a good chance that your blowup mattress has seen better days.
  — Cnn Underscored Staff, CNN Underscored, 27 Nov. 2020
• The data were completely smooth, with no sign of the blowup he had been led to expect.
  — Stanley J. Brodsky, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
• The Giants couldn’t have asked for much more from their rookie right-hander in a year of bullpen blowups.
  — Carl Steward, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2017
• The predictable lust for a regime blowup is palpable around town.
  — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• Dodd-Frank was enacted to guard against an SVB-type blowup.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2023
• The Vixen is also still in her feelings about last week's blowup.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 10 May 2018
• In the end, there was a blowup, and the fallout was so bad that the first two couples never spoke to the third after their return.
  — Shivani Vora, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• There have been some starting pitching blowups — but more good than bad.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• There’s nothing like a blowup fight to kick of another season of The Real Housewives!
  — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
• After the first blowup, DeGeneres was able to lean into the chill, just-chatting aspect of her comedy.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 24 Sep. 2024

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blow-up

2 of 3 adjective

• The killer whales played with the blow-up craft for about an hour.
  — Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
• For me, that lesson first came with the tech bubble blow-up more than two decades ago.
  — John Abusaid, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Yet the nitwits across the street, who clutter their lawn with Christmas blow-up dolls, have won the contest four years in a row.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Dec. 2023
• Each blow-up piece has built-in LED lights and stakes and string are included for easy setup.
  — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
• He’s had two blow-up innings in which he’s surrendered eight runs, but he’s been stellar in the rest of his frames.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2024
• In one photo, Watt holds his son while sitting on a blow-up obstacle course in a lake.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
• Speaking of focusing on the future…dwelling on the blow-up that already happened won’t change a thing.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 4 Jan. 2024
• The model is a natural posing with blow-up floatie wings on the beach in Jamaica.
  — Colleen Kratofil, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
• In the first photo, Munn poses with her son next to a blue blow-up birthday balloon, standing in front of a set table.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
• There were six, but Giovanni, Lopez’s teenage son, left this past spring, after getting in a big blow-up fight with his dad.
  — Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• Munn could be seen posing with her son next to a blue blow-up birthday balloon while standing in front of a set table.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
• Tasha Zemke has traveled extensively around the U.S. and the world and has outgrown her desire to camp on a thin blow-up mattress.
  — Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2023
• The current state of live performances is starting to make more and more of a case for artists to just perform in those giant blow-up hamster balls.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2023
• After a blow-up fight, King Durin (Peter Mullan) disowned his son.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 23 July 2024
• To add the animation later, each frame that Schmidt cut was then photocopied as an 8×10 blow-up.
  — Rhett Bartlett, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2023
• Inflatable footrests can be placed in front of a seat to create a balloon of support, much like a blow-up pillow or mattress.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 2 Jan. 2024
• If these sports have previously felt inaccessible to you, a blow-up ride is a packable and easy way to join in on the fun.
  — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
• Now, inflatable splash pads and blow-up water parks (that double as bounce houses) for the backyard are all the rage, and adults are even getting in on the action too.
  — Elizabeth Kadar, Women's Health, 2 Aug. 2023
• Not unlike years past, the streets were filled with an assortment of ghosts, monsters, Disney princesses and blow-up dinosaurs.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2023
• On a stage, a Ukrainian man pointed to a blow-up doll of Putin in prison pajamas behind bars, while children held signs that read free the taurus missiles!
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• This enormous blow-up creature shoots water from its horn and is officially the most magical way to cool off on a hot day.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 23 Feb. 2023
• Bong plastered a blow-up of Vattendahl's portrait on the nose of the plane, according to a Pacific Wrecks' summary of the plane's service.
  — CBS News, 26 Mar. 2024
• From lightweight sleeping bags to blow-up camping beds, there are a wide range of packable options to take with you on your next mountain adventure.
  — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2023
• And a 2021 blow-up between the pair on set revealed things were occasionally even more dramatic behind the scenes.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 16 May 2024
• Do not jump into or put your head under bathing water (bathtubs, small hard plastic/blow-up pools) – walk or lower yourself in.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 6 Mar. 2023
• As viewers quickly learn in season 2, Lisa and Brian are have a huge, blow-up fight that involves a lot of intense moments, curse words, shouting, and storming off.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 24 Aug. 2023
• And there is an angry blow-up near the end, when both father and daughter unleash their emotions: his sincere concern and regret, her hurt and damaged sense of herself.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2023
• Kim posted footage from the bash at the time as her backyard was transformed into a soccer player paradise, with blow-up bounce houses goal-scoring setups for guests.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024
• Do not allow water to go up your nose or sniff water into your nose when bathing, showering, washing your face, or swimming in small hard plastic/blow-up pools.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 6 Mar. 2023
• Despite being a blow-up, it’s designed to last with double-layer, thickened PVC construction and a leakproof seamless bonding technique.
  — Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2023

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blow up

3 of 3 verb

• Stranger Things has caused the song to blow up around the world.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 June 2022
• If not, prices will rise, the whole thing will blow up.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• Who wouldn’t fall in love and blow up their life for her?
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 7 June 2022
• Charlie makes the trains run on time; Mike knows the best time to blow up the tracks.
  — Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2021
• He got blown up three times in Afghanistan in 2008, like big booms.
  — Quil Lawrence, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
• The Boss saw the Astros blow up the chicken man in Philly.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2022
• The show was so well received that some of those songs did blow up.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Still, there was the need to blow up her goody-goody image.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
• The mistakes here aren’t the ones that will blow up your entire life.
  — Erin Browne, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2022
• The phone was absolutely the seeds of the whole blowing up.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 1 Oct. 2023
• Who are some of those? Don’t want to blow up people’s spot.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
• Some gusts could blow up to 60 mph along the beaches and headlands.
  — oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2021
• Set up a ribbon to act as a net and blow up a balloon for a ball.
  — Catherine Holecko, Parents, 10 July 2024
• This has the potential to blow up in all of your faces and the one who will be most hurt by this is the wife.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
• At one point, the killer threatened to blow up a school bus filled with children.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
• And that’s how this drastic plan to blow up his Tesla and record a video of it came about.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Dec. 2021
• Poised to even it, 1-1, the Bruins for a second day in a row watched their boo-boo blow up big time.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
• How can your Bengals blow out the Raiders and Steelers and then blow up against the Chargers and 49ers?
  — The Enquirer, 16 Dec. 2021
• The first Korean Dad video to blow up was… a trip to Walgreens to get snacks.
  — Bettina Makalintal, Bon Appétit, 29 Oct. 2021
• The next day, the Israeli military returned and blew up the cave.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
• That’s the most Jody response — don’t blow up your life, but just start somewhere.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024
• Yes, the wind will cause these to blow up (thanks, liner, for the coverage there).
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 1 Sep. 2022
• And that is exactly the era Mr. Putin is trying to blow up.
  — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2022
• Both sides are trying to dare the other to blow up the debt ceiling – and then blame the other.
  — Fox News, 15 Sep. 2021
• It was fueled by hills of dry grass that burn fast and hot and winds blowing up to 40 mph.
  — Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
• This is not to suggest that Chaim Bloom blow up his vaunted plan.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
• Less than a month later, the blockchain world would blow up at the hands of a bogus crypto king in the Bahamas.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2022
• In the end, Bandit pretends to give birth to Bingo in a blow up pool with the help of his neighbor.
  — Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024
• Rusty’s gamble of going on the stand blows up in his face, and Tommy gets his first big win in the case.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 17 July 2024
• The Ukrainian air force and army have been trying to make an unfair fight more fair by blowing up supply depots and headquarters in and around the oblast.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024