Sentence examples for blew against from inspiring English sources

When the final whistle blew against Australia a few days later, probably the most significant footballer in the history of the Spanish national team headed straight down the tunnel in silence and did not look back.

At times producing gusts that made it hard to stand steadily, it blew against the riders on the first and final hills, across their trajectory for much of the middle section before moving slightly behind.

A frozen wind blew against her face as she walked down a lonely road, a giant blue water tower lit up in the distance, the word "Fargo" illuminated in the night.

A strong cold wind blew against him and as he buttoned his overcoat and felt how easily the buttons passed through the buttonholes, he decided that, if his life held nothing else out to him from that moment on, if it had to be passed in loneliness and poverty, it would nonetheless be a good, happy life--made happy and rich by the large, lucid fact of this overcoat.

A wind that wasn't real blew against his neck.

As the hot-air blew against the fiber at a flow rate of 90 l/min, the fiber elongated instantaneously at a strain rate in the range from 15.9 to 25.2 s−1.

If only the wind wasn't blowing against me".

"They are blowing against the belief in the free market and in favour of intervention.

But when the wind blows against you, the odor is rank and nauseating.

Crocker was blown against the wall by the bomb's impact, but escaped serious injury.

Orographic lift results from the mechanical effect of wind blowing against a terrain feature such as a cliff.