Example Sentences

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If you do find that your carefully tended baby tomatoes, peppers, squash and beans have blistered and withered, just let them go.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2021

If you find that your carefully tended baby tomatoes, peppers, squash and beans have blistered and withered, let them go.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2021

There was a time when Coughlin would have blistered Jacobs as well for losing his temper in public.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2012

They would have blistered the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, General Creighton Abrams, for initiating the charges and would have exposed jealousies between the regular Army and the elite Special Forces.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though the sun was so hot that their hands would have blistered if unprotected by gloves, the clean, dry air-current created by the rapid motion was exhilarating in the extreme.

From The Wheel O' Fortune by Tracy, Louis