Sentence examples for sharp blast from inspiring English sources

The rocket made a sharp blast, but it caused little damage: a small patch of blackened earth.

The head attendant at the Tate, the ex-grenadier guardsman Arthur Wellstead, closed the exhibition with a sharp blast on his whistle at 7.55pm on 19 September.

Released one day after her twenty-fifth birthday and entering at the top of the charts, "B'Day" is a short, sharp blast of harried music.

A win and a draw in his first two games in charge created a belief that his new career would be a stroll; a subsequent run of eight successive defeats has quickly introduced a sharp blast of reality.

The crux of the song a story involving a plum tree, black boys, a privileged white boy, and the n-word, which Michael did not sing was delivered with a sharp blast of piano.

On the third track, a short and sharp blast that might double as a salute to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (one of many bands in her debt), Ms. Harvey yelps a petulant phrase -- one not likely to appear in this newspaper -- until she has reduced it to a handful of nonsense syllables.

The driver signals her arrival with two sharp blasts of her car horn.

The only distractions were the sharp blasts of cold air as new diners wrestled the heavy glass doors open.

A night of hardcore punk, starring a half-dozen bands that make music in short, sharp blasts.

When the woman was about to cross the street at the corner of 72nd St., she took put a whistle and blew two sharp blasts.

The scenes, set to dramatic synthesizer music punctuated by sharp blasts of percussion, come from what could well be called "N.Y.P.D. Bloomberg" -- gritty television commercials being broadcast by Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire Republican running for mayor.