Sentence examples for was blown back from inspiring English sources

"I tried to tackle Jonah once at full pace and was blown back two metres," Carter writes in his book.

Indeed, I was blown back to my O-level years and found myself trying to memorise a line about wind being an interraction of temperature, pressure and the Earth's rotation.

Brook Lindbert, the engineering director for wheels and tires at General Motors, said that a little heat from the catalytic converter and the engine radiated downward and was blown back over the rear wheels because of the vehicle's motion.

He dug down and then, weak with the weight of each load, shoveled the sand into large bags and then flung the bags into the back of his truck, but because of the wind some of the sand he loaded, or much, was blown back into his face, open-mouthed.

But she was blown back by the phone call from Bill that forced her to remember her daughter's suicide.

He planned to eject over water and await rescue by Navy helicopters, and therefore flew to an airfield near Pohang, but his ejection seat was blown back over land.

Because the wind that day was blowing back against the fire, the smoke spiralled up from within the burning vegetation.

Somehow, no matter where Beyoncé placed herself onstage, an unseen fan was blowing back her hair, even when she was on her back atop a piano and singing a ballad, "Speechless".

"We've had snow-moving machinery out, but the likes of last night no sooner had we cleared roads than the snow was blowing back in again and they had to be re-cleared.

When Perlis came aboard, the wind in media land was blowing back to charging for digital properties.

Birds can make no way in such weather; they are blown back and broken.