Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An exceedingly strong gust of wind.
- noun The damaging effect of air friction on a pilot ejected from a high-speed aircraft.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A sudden rush of air or gas due to the
collapse of avoid , especially inmining .
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Examples
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We were on a back road flanked by saguaros and wildflowers, notched saguaros, pecked by birds that nested there, and then we reached the interstate and edged into the windblast of streaming traffic.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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We were on a back road flanked by saguaros and wildflowers, notched saguaros, pecked by birds that nested there, and then we reached the interstate and edged into the windblast of streaming traffic.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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We were on a back road flanked by saguaros and wildflowers, notched saguaros, pecked by birds that nested there, and then we reached the interstate and edged into the windblast of streaming traffic.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The windblast it flung out snapped grown trees at the base, tossed canoes end over end, and knocked nearly every man on the shore flat on the sand and gravel.
Conan and The Gods of The Mountain Green, Roland 1993
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He quickly realized his helmet and mask had been ripped off by the windblast.
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He quickly realized his helmet and mask had been ripped off by the windblast.
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But the report says he suffered fatal blunt force trauma due to the aircraft's speed and windblast.
ajc.com - News 2009
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He quickly realized his helmet and mask had been ripped off by the windblast.
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But the report says he suffered fatal blunt force trauma due to the aircraft's speed and windblast.
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But the report says he suffered fatal blunt force trauma due to the aircraft's speed and windblast.
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