full-blown - use in sentences

Modifying Another Word

  • even: You can create your own custom units, and write your own scenarios -- or even full-blown campaigns.
  • not: It's not something serious, it's not full-blown, it's more of a subtle flavor.

Modifies a noun

  • recession: The government's response was to tighten the credit squeeze, which sent large parts of the economy into full-blown recession.
  • crisis: Taking decisive steps at an early stage can prevent a cashflow blip turning into a full-blown insolvency crisis.
  • attack: This in turn led to a full-blown attack on the 12 th August 1914.
  • illness: For one person it will be an ache or pain to another it will be a full-blown illness or disease.
  • war: The impetus for a full-blown war was the unexpected destruction of a US warship anchored in Havana harbor in 1898.
  • project: It began as getting some demo tracks before Adele left for South Africa, but developed into a full-blown project.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: FleaScan helps you identify flea infestation in any dog or cat long before becoming full-blown.
  • develop: Millions of people are already HIV positive and many of them have developed full-blown AIDS.
  • have: I thought he had malnutrition, but in fact he had full-blown Aids.

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