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Meanings of blow up in English
Synonyms
Examples for "pad"
Examples for "pad"
1
Would that work? Eric held a pen over a pad of paper.
2
Reporters will, however, only have a pen and pad to work on.
3
Forty-five years ago, Rione said, her eyes on her data pad again.
4
That much is true, right? She eased the pad back to him.
5
Rae set aside the pad of paper and glanced at the clock.
1
Dip in seasoned flour and sauté in hot lard in a frying-pan.
2
The lard is fun, but use vegetable oil if you are reticent.
3
He made mulligan in one lard bucket and boiled beans in another.
4
Skim the lard or dripping always before you put in the fish.
5
And lard is transferred daily from commercial-sized vats directly to local butts.
1
There is music and song to embellish and explain the lucid action.
2
So why do we need to embellish, to build a tall tale?
3
That experienced diplomatist perceived that it was necessary to further embellish himself.
4
Besides these works to embellish, he formed others to fortify the city.
5
Within the week the three heads of us will embellish Temple Bar.
1
With the cotton embroider the pattern in darning-stitch, as given in illustration.
2
My parents never said anything you'd want to embroider on a cushion.
3
This lady took a pleasure in teaching her to sew and embroider.
4
Nay, for I'll embroider a cross in the middle with gold braid.
5
You will have to embroider quite well before beginning on the figures.
1
Having told you this, I shall no longer try to dramatize his speech.
2
And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
3
To dramatize telephoto he picked an easy example of its wonders.
4
Spaak of the U. N., asking the press not to over-dramatize the events.
5
But this particular man felt my particularpresence would overly dramatize things.
1
Why do we dramatise the pandemic in a way other countries don't?
2
They dramatise a child's concerns and give them a way to manage traumas.
3
How can opera attempt to dramatise the thousand-fold tragedies of the twin towers?
4
These bombs did but accentuate and dramatise an already developing problem.
5
Edgar's strength has always been his ability to dramatise the intricacies of the political process.
1
Beware lest thou aggrandize thy ministers at the expense of thy subjects.
2
The Gospel is to aggrandize Christ and the mercy of God.
3
His desire to aggrandize his family burned with a quenchless flame.
4
The Gospel is not there for us to aggrandize ourselves.
5
The people were virtually enslaved to aggrandize a single person.
1
His lordship argued that the five-pound qualification would increase agitation, would aggrandise radical interests.
2
Does the Pope want to aggrandise himself by war?
3
Thou shouldst, to the best of thy power, aggrandise him as thou winnest aggrandisement for thyself.
4
He had said, and even sworn, that he would never aggrandise the territory of the Empire!
5
Offices are not there for you to occupy (or be deployed to) and aggrandise yourself.
Usage of blow up in English
1
It came to me suddenly: he meant to blow up the Intendance.
2
First, he judged it necessary to blow up the bridge of Demir-Hissar.
3
He could not blow up one of these bubbles on the spring.
4
Gas of northern metaphysics to blow up Broad Church bishops like balloons.
5
The wind begins to blow up sharply, though it was very pleasant.
6
These madmen expect to blow up the United States on May first.
7
Some one has sent us a bomb to blow up the school.
8
I was the main reason it didn't blow up against the windshield.
9
Yet if thou hidest from me, I will blow up the gate.
10
On the other hand, it might blow up at any instant, too.
11
No doubt a wicked attempt to blow up the Observatory, they say.
12
And this case is due to blow up like Hiroshima before then.
13
The wise man will collect enough dynamite to blow up this planet.
14
The Hun-confound him-willblow up with a loud bang about next July.
15
I've made enough of the blessed stuff to blow up half Tilbury.
16
Perhaps he'd blow up or catch fire if he were to try.
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