Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
(Sports) dropping the ball.
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Examples for "blow "
Examples for "blow "
1 And La Motte; at the first blow ; was more than half successful.
2 It was a blow in the face; his own voice hardened then.
3 My head sunk on my breast; I received the blow in silence.
4 The salt winds of the Channel blow in through the open ports.
5 He got in between the armour plates; first blow went to him.
1 However, I also strongly believe in the right to spoil your vote.
2 I wanted to spoil the party by a long way, Abbott said.
3 No way was he going to let a woman spoil the moment.
4 We should not interfere in case we spoil an official criminal investigation.
5 The only result will be to spoil the control of the aeroplane.
1 The Company's cellulose fibers product portfolio includes fluff , market and specialty pulps.
2 No permanent space means there's no place for postcards or personal fluff .
3 Let me trim out all the fluff and get to work, already!
4 Sunrise disclosed the world trimmed from horizon to horizon in fairy fluff .
5 You think I am being dramatic, building fluff when there isn't any.
1 Rusty patched bumble bee proposed for U.S. endangered species status The U.S.
2 A bumble - bee alighted and strolled on the crown of his Panama hat.
3 When my godson grows up, he wants to be a bumble bee.
4 Children, have you ever seen a wild bees' nest- a real bumble - bees 'home
5 Bees, bumble bees, and even wasps were the victims of his strange voracity.
1 Mr Andrews has publicly taken personal responsibility for the hotel quarantine bungle .
2 That's an unbelievably catastrophic bungle right at the front door, Stefanovic said.
3 This bureaucratic bungle persisted for more than two years until October 2018.
4 Of course he made a terrible bungle of it to start with.
5 He must understand his position, so as not to bungle the thing.
1 Well, you made a dog's bollocks of that, didn't you, little Beta?
2 Listen, Doc, I don't need to know all the technical bollocks .
3 I don't write at a certain time each day - bollocks to that.
4 It was just a moment of exasperation and I thought, ' bollocks to it'.
5 They think it's all bollocks and are prepared to say so.
1 In fact, he argued forcefully against the botch - up , to great personal cost.
2 It was something of a botch , too, in an extremely pleasant way.
3 The National Party called for Clark to be sacked after the botch - up .
4 BP's wooden CEO has seemed able to botch even the friendliest interviews.
5 I must botch up the accounts, I see,-thesquire has grown sharp.
1 A bobble at the start can reduce that margin in a flash.
2 On Stubbs's desk, beside his laptop, is a Jerry Falwell bobble - head doll.
3 A plate that has a little bobble , all of them, any so.
4 Famous faces gave salopettes, skis and bobble hats a forever fashion status.
5 She shoved the shoulder straps down, and let her tits bobble free.
1 Someone could simply guess, or flub the answer through a silly mistake.
2 Sending out mass apology for the address book flub later today.
3 You remember that flub of hers last year at the festival for Hermes?
4 He didn't do a thing wrong except flub a few of his lines.
5 It was one flub after another-doubledbecause of Judith copying me!
1 Remember what a furious bodge that turned out to be?
2 But it works well, and makes you realise how often other crime shows bodge their endings. 22.
3 I was far too tired, and not in the mood; I made a bodge of narrating my report.
4 The bodge job is so dodge, the trains sport disabled accessible toilets that wheelchairs can't properly fit into.
1 Clinton and her staff maintain she did not mishandle any information.
2 It doesn't matter that the ministers and their courtiers shamelessly mishandle the nation's affairs.
3 As the West continuous to mishandle the electronic jihad it is proving the militants right.
4 The group said in a statement that officials have mishandled the situation.
5 Both sides mishandled the crisis that followed, leading to the final split.
1 That really was bizarre, but not costly, as the captain Schaars made a total bollix of the corner.
2 Since he declined to return their ball, the youths would assuredly have called him a "speccy bollix " .
3 They thought for a while and came up with what they agreed was a much more acceptable word: " bollix " .
4 Someday I would look back on it with disbelief, knowing the only thing I'd accomplished with Iola was to bollix my chances with this woman.
5 You didn't get this bollixed up without lots and lots of planning.
1 It was the day she threw her ball up into the tree.
2 I thought we ran the ball up the court with a purpose.
3 Five strokes later I picked my ball up out of the bunker.
4 Throw the ball up , and Mr. Randolph Rover held out his hands.
5 It seems as if some one had thrown a ball up there.
1 True, viruses muck up computers and networks, and cost a fortune in downtime.
2 If the suits want to hopelessly muck up their own network, let them.
3 Just release the spray or muck up the chemical balance in his Pirbuterol Acetate.
4 Rather than muck up a good thing, Dearborn opted for a touchup over a makeover.
5 But it's an opportunity we could still muck up .
1 You didn't get this bollixed up without lots and lots of planning.
2 This brain is bollixed up about reality and I can't analyze it.
3 Tom would get all bollixed up trying to set up even a little tent.
4 He wondered if he'd bollixed up the breaks.
5 Damn, I'm going to enjoy that almost as much as I am bollixing up my dear old friend Ralph's campaign.'
1 'We're going to bollocks up our second chance at Eden, even before the paint has dried.'
1 And of course there are plenty of neurotics around, people who'd louse up heaven itself.
2 Only trouble is, they louse up the range scale.
3 Moral: Thou shalt not convert thy neighbor's wife, nor yet louse up they neighbor's life.
4 You did us a favor by giving us advance notice; why should we louse up your show for you?
5 I was this close to hornin' in on your conversation, but then I figured why louse up a sale for you?
1 Finally I realised that if you foul up , you move on.
2 At least now we know for certain that we didn't foul up the initialization process.
3 You can't even trust them to foul up dependably.
4 He didn't want anything to foul up this reunion.
5 Look on the bright side, the water should foul up that white fire of theirs.
1 If I mess up , I have to lead by example and go.
2 They mess up budgets, and the HSE must live within its budget.
3 The last thing you want to do is mess up that moment.
4 I just don't want anything to happen to mess up this sale.
5 What if I do bad?' I was really afraid to mess up .
1 But the second time they operate it'll be harder to fuck up .
2 Now it's time to cowboy the fuck up and deal with it.
3 And we can always make an exception if you really fuck up .
4 That's what could happen if you fuck up when you're in charge.
5 Tyrone glared at him, as if to say, shut the fuck up .
1 I must botch up the accounts, I see,-thesquire has grown sharp.
2 Are you affected by Auckland Council's consenting botch up ?
3 Gillard accepts complete responsibility for the "real Julia" botch up in the 2010 campaign.
4 The Prime Minister says a botch up that allowed a woman with Covid-19 to leave isolation is unacceptable.
5 The Prime Minister is facing his first political botch up as questions continue to swirl around the Internal Affairs Minister.
1 The new commonwealth must arouse, and screw up the brakes much tighter.
2 Mr. Lansing could not screw up his courage to resign in 1916.
3 I will have my hair frizzed, and screw up an imposing cue.
4 I've been trying for days to screw up my courage to speak.
5 Mendax wanted something innocuous, which wouldn't screw up the 1000 lines permanently.
Feel about uncertainly or blindly.
Make one's way clumsily or blindly.
1 Leaders who fumble crises like these often pay a high political price.
2 I fumble for my phone, then speed-dial the last number-theDuty Officer.
3 Linebacker Luke Kuechly recovered the fumble at the New Orleans 45-yard line.
4 Indianapolis cornerback Vontae Davis forced the fumble , and safety Mike Adams recovered.
5 Undaunted by his fumble , Stidham kept the pressure on the Bulldogs' defense.
6 At the upper landing he was compelled to fumble for the bell.
7 Hannah went over to it and began to fumble with the bolt.
8 Watt has seven quarterback hurries, a forced fumble and two pass deflections.
9 Locke came up to hit the Bears quarterback and forced a fumble .
10 Newton's fourth-quarter fumble on a scramble resulted in Dawson's 39-yard field goal.
11 The Titans had not lost a fumble through their first four games.
12 Oh, they also had six tackles for loss and a fumble recovery.
13 These peasants' are the only pockets in which they can fumble nowadays.
14 It forced three fourth-quarter turnovers - two interceptions and a fumble recovery.
15 He has forced one fumble , recovered three fumbles and intercepted one pass.
16 Thompson lost a fumble on a scramble to end the first drive.
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