Sentence examples for were designed to blow from inspiring English sources

The very things that were designed to blow up our cities are now lighting up our cities.

Their construction appeared to support the conclusion, announced Sunday by John O. Brennan, the White House counterterrorism adviser, that the bombs were designed to blow up aboard the aircraft.

The Securities & Exchange Commission has accused Goldman Sachs of helping its hedge fund clients–and double-crossing its bank clients by constructing mortgage portfolios that were designed to blow up.

The game was designed to blow some cobwebs away and hopefully build some combinations.

They may be designed to blow up other ships or attack land targets.

These fuses are designed to blow when infrastructure gets too hot so that it isn't damaged.

Back in Denmark, the chimney of their power plant will be the coolest flue around: it is designed to blow smoke rings, puffing 30-metre wide halos towards the heavens.

A light aluminium roof was designed to blow off in the event of an accident.

Both parcels were addressed to synagogues in Chicago, although the UK later said it was believed that the device seized in England had been designed to blow up on the plane itself.

Military spending is the very essence of "built-in obsolescence": it turns out products that are designed to blow up.

Much of our military hardware is just good for "shock and awe," not needed for any "real and present danger". Military spending is the very essence of "built-in obsolescence": it turns out products that are designed to blow up.