Sentence examples for collective blow from inspiring English sources

"The announcement of his death felt like a collective blow for all Australians.

Combining traditional brass and technological innovation, Nortec Collective blew the crowd away with their unique style of electro-norteno.

As described by critic Fred Kaplan, a 1950 performance by the Duke Ellington Orchestra features arrangements with the collective "blowing rich, dark, tone clusters that evoke Ravel".

Rather, he is engaged in a promotional photo session for Fat Les, the prank art collective who blew the English Football Association's vapid official World Cup anthem clear out of the water in 1998, with a brash romp called 'Vindaloo'Vindaloo

In July the Silent Barn arts collective suffered heavy blows twice: first, city officials raided the space during a Friday night show and delivered the vacate order; then thieves broke in the following night while the space was empty, stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of sound equipment and vandalized the club.

So let me take a moment to blow their collective horn – especially since they're so humble.

Instead, it has had the unanticipated effect of bringing together wildly disparate groups to blow a collective raspberry, throwing the plan into disarray.

"Yeezus" might blow our collective hair back for the summer, but West has to live with these tunes for the rest of his life.

("The idea that some undiscovered meaning may still subsist in a poem seems to be regarded as scandalous, a blow to collective moral security").

Carcinogenesis sounded a lot like degeneracy, and America was happy to blow a collective stream of smoke in the face of that charge.

Here's a round-up of what to expect, what isn't all that likely, and what might blow our collective socks off.