Sentence examples for cold blast from inspiring English sources

Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman, described the drop in GDP as a "cold blast of realism".

The cold blast will also affect parts of the east coast still clearing up from Friday's storm.

In this case, however, the rain was being met by a cold blast coming in overland from the north.

He also experimented with the strength of iron and the relative merits of hot and cold blast in iron manufacture.

Wet snow fell as far south as London and south-east England early on the 21st as a brief cold blast arrived from the north.

An engineer by training and mother of two teenagers, Tacon has a no-nonsense attitude that should send a cold blast of change through the industry.

In such cases some shops augment their scrap charges with direct-reduced iron or cold blast-furnace iron, which do not contain residuals.

Bulk materials, such as scrap, cold blast-furnace iron, ore, limestone, coke, and alloying agents, are charged through the furnace doors in small boxes of one- to two-cubic-metre capacity.

That charitable thought seems to have withered in the cold blasts of the recession.

Such cold blasts are usually dry, Mr. Gadomski said, but in this case were accompanied by ample moisture, producing heavy snow.

July's estimate of a £300m hit in 2016 has become £650m and the cold blasts are coming from every division.