Blasts
[blɑ:sts]
Examples
- What is that electricity they speak of, whose changes make us well or ill, whose lack or excess blasts, whose even balance revives? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Add that the water, being heated and rarefied by the subterraneous fires, may emit fumes, blasts, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The gentlest summer breezes and the fiercest blasts of winter are produced by the unequal heating of air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The sharp blasts of the chuffing engine broke with more and more force on her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was a very cold day, with cutting blasts of wind. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Our ice boats cut and break the ice of the river, and through the water beneath our boats daily ply their way to and fro, independent of winter and its blighting blasts. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind, and the day just closed as I sat down to read had been the worst of all. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Edited by Julia