blast - use in sentences

Object

  • ball: Jordan placed the ball on the spot and confidently power blasted the ball at the goal.

Preposition: on

  • whistle: The emergency signal is six blasts on the whistle or six flashes with the flashlight.
  • horn: An emergency stop signal will be a long blast on a klaxon horn, sounded from the bank.

Adjective modifier

  • icy: Come as an icy blast against the destructive heat of our enmity: extinguish our hostility.
  • leukemic: However, 4 months after onset, leukemic blasts were detected in cerebrospinal fluid.
  • shrill: With that, the referee brings proceedings to a close with three shrill blasts on his shiny whistle and Chelsea take the three points.
  • loud: At length, Sir Guy made his choice, grabbed the hunting-horn and blew a loud blast.

Converse of object

  • withstand: The R12 building was huge and the thick steel reinforced concrete walls were designed to withstand nuclear blast.
  • rip: The blast ripped through the factory leaving a huge crater in its wake.

Modifies a noun

  • furnace: The pit was situated near the blast furnace about half a mile from the village.
  • slag: Even the cement was produced using powdered ground granulated blast furnace slag ( GGBS ).
  • radius: This weapon rapidly throws an innumerable number of meteorites into the landscape, each with varying blast radii from Bazooka to HHG standard.
  • pipe: January 03 2004 A close up of a blast pipe cap in cleaned up state.
  • door: Beyond the second blast door the corridor turns left into the control room which is in the center of the bunker.

Noun used with modifier

  • bomb: Where the bomb blast hit at its peak, massive damage was done.
  • trumpet: A trumpet blast against the monstrous regiment of fathers!
  • muzzle: I slide off my seat looking out the port and the muzzle blast blows my hair back.
  • rice: Detailed description of infection process exhibited by the rice blast pathogen.
  • horn: This signal is relayed quickly by voice, hand and arm movements, or horn blasts.
  • cannon: The ground beneath men's feet shook with each repeated cannon blast, the Highlanders began to fall in their hundreds.

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