Blows in example sentence

Then, the millennium turned and the American Century was laid low by three successive existential body blows: the 9/11 terrorist attacks, misconceived and inconclusive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the 2008 global financial crisis.

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I want to write about a tornado that comes into our house and blows all the windows out, and ruins all the furniture and kills everybody."

So when the moist breeze blows in off the sea, you get these droplets of water forming on the beetle's shell.

This is a greenhouse designed for arid coastal regions, and the way it works is that you have this whole wall of evaporator grills, and you trickle seawater over that so that wind blows through, it picks up a lot of moisture and is cooled in the process.

If the wind blows them over, they're like beetles stuck there on the ground.

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