Sentence examples for has blown off from inspiring English sources

In several areas of the country, the lid has blown off long-suppressed ethnic and religious conflicts.

Now that the lid has blown off the pressure cooker, repression may take more blatant and more violent forms.

My umbrella has blown off the fence and now lies flapping out of reach on the other side.

The economy has not overheated so far, he said, because it has blown off steam through two safety valves.

The mantle she holds in one hand has blown off her stout, fleshy body, though somehow the wind has no effect on her long hair.

Currently, the ground in the country is so dry from Beijing south through the provinces of Hebei, Henan and Shandong to Jiangsu Province, just north of Shanghai, that trees and houses are coated with topsoil that has blown off parched fields.

"It looked like a bomb had blown off in it," she said.

"I shouldn't have blown off that Zumba class to go out with my friends".

The top had blown off the vacuum fitting for an accessory whistle, leaving a dime-size, but potentially disabling, hole.

But the sightscreen has been damaged and bulbs have blown off [the floodlights]," the TNCA secretary, Kashi Viswanathan, said.

It's not hard to guess why McCain had blown off Letterman for Couric at the last minute.