Sentence examples for blew like from inspiring English sources
The clover expanded inside them until they blew, "like popped balloons".
White plastic bags blew like ghosts down the street, the black clouds crept like a tiger after prey!
Photograph: Tristram Kenton Perhaps it's the cheap booze with which they ply Royal Court writers on writers' night, but my mind blew like a steam whistle watching the new production of Ionesco's Rhinoceros.
As the ticker started rolling, hats flew into the air and horns blew: like exchanges in New York, London and elsewhere, Johannesburg's stock exchange, the JSE, had become a listed company on its own market.Listing is the latest mark of the past decade's modernisation, which has turned the 119-year-old institution from a cosy club of stockbrokers into a more transparent limited company.
Theodore notes, for instance, that a pond on the outskirts of town was "pristine except for a few gum wrappers and wind-driven empty Styrofoam worm containers that blew like miniature ghost ships across a surface that looked almost solid enough to walk on, not at all the sort of place where anyone, let alone a person's mother, could be sucked under to drown".
"Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowing / Blowing like the sky is gonna blow apart," he rumbles.
They wanted to take Ike to shoot some quail, but it was cold and the wind was blowing like crazy.
Disperse your crumpled wings, college students and professors of U.N.D. Let your bodies blow like dust across the prairies!
And he wanted me to "blow" like Jimi Hendrix or someone.
The wind was going to blow like this all day long.
When the wind is blowing like that, this is probably the biggest park in baseball".
