Sentence examples for were blasted off from inspiring English sources

But some circumstances are appalling enough to melt even hard hearts: a 3-year-old Iraqi boy whose extremities were blasted off; an Iraqi captain made a paraplegic in a firefight, begging his caregivers to kill him; reports of wives' calling hospitals long distance to ask if their wounded husbands will be able to father children again.

Liu Yang has become China's first woman in space, after she and two male colleagues were blasted off from the edge of the Gobi Desert en route for the Tiangong space module.

Raisina Hill, commanding a view of the entire area, stood about 50 feet (15 metres) above the plain, but the top 20 feet (6 metres) were blasted off to make a level plateau for the major government buildings and to fill in depressions.

Scientists want to discover whether Phobos and Deimos are captured asteroids that Mars pulled into its orbit or whether they were blasted off the surface of the planet by cosmic impact.

Back in the day, the explosives were blasted off a cliff on the other side of town.

Locals were blasting off handguns right behind us.

After the metal solidifies, the sand crust is blasted off, and any rough edges are removed.

They flow into rotating tanks where the skins are blasted off with steam.

1971 Rockall's peaked summit is blasted off by 39 Regiment, Royal Engineers, for a navigation beacon in Operation Tophat.

Chunks of concrete had been blasted off the building, shards of glass were sprinkled across the pavement.

Inched open by politicians, the bedroom door has this time been blasted off its hinges not by the press, but by a First Lady spurned.