Sentence examples for a blown tyre from inspiring English sources

August 26: Hamilton suffers a blown tyre 15 laps from home when on course for third place behind a Ferrari one-two of Felipe Massa and Raikkonen.

The news caps a bad couple of days for Mercedes driver Hamilton after a blown tyre ruined his chances of winning the British Grand Prix at Silverstone yesterday.

All week he had been cheeping merrily about the race but, in the shock of defeat, after a blown tyre took him out of the race in the 63rd lap, ending his hopes of a first British world championship since James Hunt in 1976, he could barely speak.

"We thought a big truck had blown a tyre.

We had blown a tyre, and having successfully navigated the Italian word gommo meaning both "tyre" and "condom" (unhelpful when explaining how you've burst one, especially while travelling with a pregnant woman), we sat waiting for the replacement to be fitted.

"They've blown a tyre off or they're lost.

He likened the effect of the Brussels decision to "being in a rally, and blowing a tyre.

I made a blowing gesture and pointed to the tyre, the air steward moved back, she thought I was trying to give her a kiss.

Who? 1.42pm: Gert Frobe blows a tyre on a snowy road, and that surely means it's all over for Gert, who was only supposed to come in 26th anyway, or else they'll kill him for his trouble.

Morgan Freeman has said that he had emerged "without a scratch" after the plane in which he was travelling blew a tyre on takeoff and made an emergency landing in which the landing gear collapsed.

While the first family is being ferried away from Camp David one night in heavy snow, the president's stretch limo blows a tyre and teeters terrifyingly over a bridge with only the VIPs in the back keeping it from toppling over.