Sentence examples for were blown sideways from inspiring English sources

Luckily, no important bits were blown sideways.

"Trees were blowing sideways.

But everyone knows that the true state of the union is dire: 13m Americans are unemployed, the recovery is fragile and at any moment the economy could be blown sideways by a new gust of bad economic news from Europe.

Many wives in long marriages, presuming Ms. Wall Spitzer was blown sideways by the news, were unnerved by the possibility that the person one has known since forever — that familiar, safe, pre-caffeinated face — could, in fact, be Dorian Gray.

Ms. Ashwell, who had just turned 50 and had already been blown sideways by the recent death of her mother, was soon presiding over the liquidation of 15 stores and the dismissal of her hand-picked teams of upholsterers and sewers, designers and salespeople.

Instead of interviewing the highly intelligent and thoughtful people who have just been blown sideways by something inexplicable, they essentially say: It cannot be, and it must not be so.

When I'm honest it seems to me as if our political leaders are like boats which have lost both rudder and keel; they are blown sideways by winds and currents and they are powerless to change course.

The snow was blowing sideways.

The rain was blowing sideways at times inside Lane Stadium.

Rain was blowing sideways and the news blared that consumer spending was at a historic low.

Tractor-trailers were barreling by, the snow was blowing sideways, and the road was icing up.