Get to know Blowing better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like processing.
Blowing in a sentence
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Blowing meaning
present participle and gerund of blow
Synonyms of Blowing
Using Blowing
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of blow
- Useful related words include: processing.
- In the example corpus, blowing often appears in combinations such as: blowing up, and blowing, blowing out.
Context around Blowing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Blowing
- In this selection, "blowing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mind, steam, first, east, south and rock stand out and add context to how "blowing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a mind blowing masterpiece that, abstaining from blowing the shofar and blowing snow. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "blowing" sits close to words such as merger, bulls and edges, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with blowing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Better to blow off steam blowing a load than blowing a head off. (13 words)
In Blowing Rock, Karon began writing Father Tim stories for the Blowing Rocket newspaper. (14 words)
Andy Serkis is calling Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' story mind-blowing. (14 words)
And we felt that look, there's probably much more effective -- we can either go lock horns with them and bang our heads and end up like some of the guys that are now having to exit, where we'd be blowing our brains out with spending too much money. (50 words)
All those wind and solar additions have to be paid for and we still require full-time natural gas, coal and nuclear power to keep the lights on when the wind isn’t blowing, and the sun isn’t shining. (40 words)
As its middling 65% Rotten Tomatoes score and 6.7 IMDb rating would suggest, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre isn’t a mind-blowing masterpiece that will change audiences’ lives, but it’s still well worth a watch. (38 words)
As for the reason for abstaining from blowing the shofar on Shabbat, that's due to the fear of carrying the instrument itself! (23 words)
Example sentences (20)
Better to blow off steam blowing a load than blowing a head off.
Blowing on Dice or Cards: Many people believe in the superstition of blowing on dice or cards before rolling or dealing them, as they think it can bring good luck.
That's because the winds shifted, from blowing east to blowing south, and are bringing smoke from the wildfires burning in Northern California.
In Blowing Rock, Karon began writing Father Tim stories for the Blowing Rocket newspaper.
The compression would have created a cannon effect, with the powder first blowing up from the top of the barrel before, a millisecond later, blowing out.
The prevailing wind during the afternoon and evening is from the west (onshore, blowing in from the Mediterranean); at night it reverses to offshore, blowing from the land out to sea.
A Canadian woman and a pediatric cardiologist from Georgia won the men's and women's contests at the annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest in Key West, Fla., using different techniques to impress Saturday's judges.
After blowing a 15-point second-half lead, the Nuggets leaned on their generational superstar to survive a feverish comeback by Orlando.
After blowing a late lead twice in a 4-3 loss, Cubs manager David Ross and players stressed the value of winning a series against the best team in baseball.
All those wind and solar additions have to be paid for and we still require full-time natural gas, coal and nuclear power to keep the lights on when the wind isn’t blowing, and the sun isn’t shining.
A lot of people are probably either going to have Notre Dame blowing out the Tigers or the game being a total nail-biter.
A minute before almost blowing his brains out, the world seemed so that the only thing Greene could think of doing was killing himself.
And I think that’s what’s really blowing my mind, is more of us are waking up to the danger that we’ve just been living with this whole time.
And we felt that look, there's probably much more effective -- we can either go lock horns with them and bang our heads and end up like some of the guys that are now having to exit, where we'd be blowing our brains out with spending too much money.
Andy Serkis is calling Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' story mind-blowing.
Ariori urged them to follow the lead now that it was obvious where the wind is blowing.
A Russian ship was struck by Ukrainian water-borne drones blowing a hole in its side, said the SBU.
As for the reason for abstaining from blowing the shofar on Shabbat, that's due to the fear of carrying the instrument itself!
As its middling 65% Rotten Tomatoes score and 6.7 IMDb rating would suggest, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre isn’t a mind-blowing masterpiece that will change audiences’ lives, but it’s still well worth a watch.
Ass walked out of the ring and up the ramp, blowing right by his teammates Max Caster and Anthony Bowens.
Phrases with blowing
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with blowing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- blowing up 28×
- and blowing 12×
- blowing out 10×
- after blowing 9×
- is blowing 9×
- blowing in 8×
- blowing -point 7×
- of blowing 6×
- blowing them 6×
- blowing the 5×