6 sentences with 'blowing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word blowing and other words derived from it.
• « Balloons are gently blowing in the breeze, and brightly colored ties and paper clip chains hang from the branches of a tree. Those who knew the teenagers buried in this cemetery are not puzzled by these unusual memories, for these girls were very special. »
• « Not even the slightest breeze was blowing in the cove where our 12.8-meter Breath boat was moored in the delta of the mighty Gambia River near Banjul, the capital of The Gambia. »
• « The key was the invention of the caravel, a new type of ship capable of sailing both into the wind and against side winds; as long as the wind was not blowing in the opposite direction to that in which you wanted to travel, it was possible to keep moving in the right direction. »
• « But there are cycles in which the direction of the winds is altered, blowing in a west-east direction, which causes the equatorial water mass to move towards the western coasts of South America, inhibiting the cold and regulating Humboldt current, which causes the entire coastal area of Peru to overheat. The Pacific warms and changes occur across the globe. This is the El Niño current. »
• « If we were to make this journey on foot across the boiling ground of the planet Venus, we would have to struggle against the heavy carbon dioxide and the enormous air pressure, as if we were pushing our way through a dense liquid. If the slightest breeze were blowing, three or four kilometres per hour, keeping our feet would require the same effort as it takes to fight against the raging current of a river. »
• « Plans were soon drawn up to restore the city's freedom, and there was no shortage of those who proposed digging a tunnel to the fort, placing an explosive device there and blowing it up with as many Englishmen as there were. »