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
Examples of blow away in a Sentence
the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion
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Marina Watts, People.com, 3 Apr. 2025
The designer said he was blown away by the artist’s Old Masters approach to depicting giant beasts and birds.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2025
But a thunderstorm that brought intense wind and rain swept through the nation's capital Monday night, blowing away many of the blossoms and cutting short the spring spectacle that millions gather to see in D.C. every year.
—Lisa Thomson, NPR, 1 Apr. 2025
However oddly this may strike you at first, that fresh breeze from the East has the effect of blowing away the cobwebs, giving her renderings the immediacy and wit of the original.
—Daniel Mendelsohn, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for blow away
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“Blow away.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blow%20away. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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