verb
Example Sentences
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They organized in neighborhood cells, connected by messaging apps, and blew whistles to warn of ICE’s presence.
He’s tall and athletic, with blond hair that looks like the wind blew it all to one side of his head and the same round baby cheeks Boo has.
From Literature
A light breeze blew, and for a moment it looked like she was trying to twist the weed in her fingers.
From Literature
The almighty apparently abandoned the Rams three weeks later when they twice blew leads in a 31-19 loss to Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl.
From Los Angeles Times
On Nicollet Avenue around 9 a.m. local time on Saturday, locals blew warning whistles and filmed masked federal agents walking through Minneapolis’s Whittier neighborhood.
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