Example Sentences

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The smallest of the four dams was removed last year, and crews have been blasting into a second concrete dam with dynamite.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

The search teams also have been blasting the area with recordings of the voice of the children’s grandmother, though heavy rains have been drowning out the sound, Sánchez said.

From Washington Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Should he have been blasting through that 1,000th Peleton ride with his heart condition?

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2021

Take that, Jeff Bezos and William Shatner and all the suborbital space tourists who have been blasting off Earth in recent weeks for a few minutes of weightlessness.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2021

For the last five hundred and seventy-nine seconds you have been blasting at one-quarter space speed.

From Stand by for Mars! by Glanzman, Louis