Sentence examples for the war blew from inspiring English sources

Before the Taliban lopped off the traders' hands and the war blew away half the shopfronts, Chicken Street was where the hippies flocked to stock up on Afghan tack.

She sat on the couch and saw the war blowing apart in her city.

And there are signs that, beneath the veneer of waterfront sparkle, this optimistic image of Beirut's glory days – revived like a phoenix, 20 years after the civil war blew the city to rubble – might not all be quite what it seems.

The Pacific war blew away ninety percent and the chaos of the revolution blew away the remnants of official and private collections.

In 1963, right before the Vietnam war blew up, he signed with the California National Guard and stayed for six years, serving as a radio man during the Watts riots and narrowly avoiding activation to fight overseas.

But there was no hard proof, and a squeamish Congress, itself ambivalent about the covert/overt war, blew no whistles and called no hearings.

I had an interesting and very informative conversation with Ken Lowe of Sigma Designs and what he had to say about the next-gen DVD format war blew me away.

Senator Clinton might have felt that caution was the better path to follow, but she put her finger in the air, found the winds of war blowing and caved.

It feels as if the 2017 summer breeze is being scattered by the winds of war blowing from across our world towards Britain, just like they were in 1939.

It's January, and we're lunching on poached rabbit with cauliflower-stuffed macaroni on a bed of puréed truffles, halfway through Paris's semiannual haute couture shows, the winds of war blowing all around what may turn out to be the longest continuous brink in the history of warfare.

The limits of creativity here are so wide that very quickly we find we've fallen through the holes old wars blew open, into something like the endless dreams of millions dead.