blow into
Britishverb
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Ari Lightman, a professor of digital media and marketing at Carnegie Mellon, compared this approach to the ignition interlock devices that require people who have driven drunk to blow into a machine in order to turn their cars on.
From Slate
You make it and blow into it, and then it pops open into a sphere, and then you just fold it in and fill it with popcorn.
From Los Angeles Times
Extreme winds from the north and northeast will continue to blow into the Los Angeles region through Wednesday morning, bringing gusts of up to 80 mph as firefighters battle fires.
From Los Angeles Times
But if the Cascades see even one large fire, smoke could easily blow into Seattle, as it did during the Bolt Creek Fire of 2022.
From Seattle Times
In six of his smoking cessation trials, Businelle verifies whether participants have smoked by asking them to blow into a small device connected to a smartphone that detects the presence of carbon monoxide.
From Science Daily
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