How to Use blastoff in a Sentence

blastoff

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  • The August blastoff will be the program’s fifth flight.
    — Justin Bachman, Bloomberg.com, 12 June 2017
  • His image caught the fiery blastoff, with spectators silhouetted in the glow of creation.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Entry-ramp blastoffs were quick, Mini claiming a 0-60 mph time of seven seconds.
    — Mark Savage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 July 2017
  • What if the rocket could be tossed several meters above the surface, allowing more clearance for blastoff?
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The return comes with a massive double sonic book that can be heard and felt, and offers an extra sensory treat beyond the sights and sounds of the blastoff for those who head to the Space Coast to watch the spectacle.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Most electric vehicles do a decent blastoff from a dead stop, along with accompanying torque, and the XC 40 Recharge does indeed move out.
    — Josh Max, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • And if this brave little phone survives blastoff and functions so many miles from Earth, the implications for spacecraft design are enormous.
    — Patrick Morgan, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2011
  • Most people watching the blastoff will be doing so virtually, as NASA has urged spectators to do.
    — National Geographic, 26 May 2020
  • No details were provided, but the company was able to recycle for a second launch try Wednesday and this time around, the countdown ticked smoothly to blastoff.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Each mighty blastoff left traces on the flame trench, a 42-foot-deep pit lined with fire-resistant bricks and concrete that channels a rocket’s superheated exhaust away from the spacecraft.
    — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian, 26 May 2017
  • Each mighty blastoff left traces on the flame trench, a 42-foot-deep pit lined with fire-resistant bricks and concrete that channels a rocket’s superheated exhaust away from the spacecraft.
    — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • The reports included photographs of the blastoff from a mobile launch vehicle.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 22 June 2016
  • Two days before blastoff, the 27-year-old Gagarin wrote a farewell letter to his wife, Valentina, sharing his pride in being chosen to ride in Vostok 1 but also trying to console her in the event of his death.
    — NBC News, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Falcon 9's blastoff from Cape Canaveral initially appeared to be a success.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2013
  • Before Rocket’s blastoff, shares of nonbank mortgage lenders had done little to impress investors in recent months.
    — Orla McCaffrey, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Walter Cronkite helms the program, and news clips depict excited crowds, waving astronauts and a blastoff countdown.
    — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Less than nine minutes after blastoff, to the relief of all, the shuttle safely carried the educator and her colleagues into orbit.
    — By Martin Merzer and Phil Long, miamiherald, 7 Aug. 2017
  • That’s an exhilarating blastoff, and even the movie’s clever title card—with its clear nods to blunt exploitation cheapies of the ’70s and ’80s—is a good kick in the pants, a promise of cathartic gratification to come.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 Jan. 2021
  • But the rocket made another delivery too: a trail of sooty particles that lingered over the Pacific hours after blastoff.
    — Ben Guarino, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Iran aired footage of the blastoff against the backdrop of negotiations in Vienna to restore Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers.
    — NBC News, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Pentagon planning for the Space Force is already underway, providing for blastoff within months of Congress giving the green light and Trump making it law.
    — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • But viewed another way, Lightyear is being granted the type of blastoff that has eluded every other Pixar release dating back to February 2020.
    — Vulture, 21 June 2022
  • Here the focus is on a single adventurer and the constellation of emotions she and her child experience in the anxious weeks before blastoff.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2020
  • After pushing the launch time back to the end of the window because of threatening weather, countdown clocks were ticking down to blastoff at 8:35 p.m. EDT when telemetry indicated a problem.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 3 July 2017
  • Live footage showed the 154-foot rocket soaring into the air with bright yellow flames shooting out of its engines after blastoff at Naro Space Center, the country's lone spaceport, on a small island off its southern coast.
    — Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2021
  • An all-civilian, non-astronaut crew, including a childhood cancer survivor, is ready for blastoff this week on a history-making SpaceX flight.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The communications problem, which technicians were still troubleshooting as of this morning, has pushed Webb’s blastoff back a couple of days, to December 24.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2021
  • TransHab is a three-level habitat, accommodating six people, that can be squeezed into a cylinder for blastoff and inflated in space.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • After a 24-hour delay because of a technical problem, a Russian Soyuz rocket made a successful blastoff from the nation's brand-new Vostochny Cosmodrome.
    — Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2016
  • The United States Pacific Command said that one of the three ballistic missiles had blown up immediately after blastoff, but that two others had traveled about 155 miles before splashing down.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2017
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blast off

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  • The opening of the trailer shows a dramatized close-up shot of a Pop-Tart shooting out of a toaster in a style similar to a spacecraft blasting off.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The probe drilled, scooped and blasted off again with the first pieces of the far side of the moon.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 June 2024
  • Prepare for blast off, and don’t get any crumbs on the couch.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 8 July 2022
  • The launch would have been the first to blast off from United States soil in nine years.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2020
  • His blast off the right-field fence in the bottom of the seventh drove in the tying run.
    — Terry Monahan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Ramírez’s two-run blast off Garcia in the fifth left no doubt.
    — Joe Noga, cleveland, 23 May 2022
  • Since then, there has been no update about the progress of the movie or when Mr. Cruise may blast off.
    — New York Times, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Cronin blasted off at Sundance 2019 with his first movie, The Hole in the Ground.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 13 June 2024
  • That’s when The Beast comes out of hibernation and Orion blasts off again.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Perry has a way of letting a team hang for a quarter or two, before blast off.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2023
  • And so the third season of the series blasts off – literally.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Still, a mix of locals and out-of-towners gathered to watch SN8 blast off and explode on landing.
    — ExpressNews.com, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Witt recorded his eighth home run with a solo blast off Alexander.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 25 May 2024
  • Dwight was one of six people who blasted off to space from the remote Texas desert on Sunday aboard the New Shepard.
    — Gina Sunseri, ABC News, 20 May 2024
  • The structure now sparkles under the sun after almost 2,000 years' worth of grime was blasted off the facade.
    — Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Berry doesn't plan to actually blast off anytime soon to find out, though.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • If that flight—or one blasting off in February—is successful, the U.S. would be back on the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.
    — Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The spacecraft will blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida a year from now and reach its destination in 2030.
    — Gina Errico, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Colwell and others predict this won't be the last time that a major celebrity will blast off into space.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2021
  • He gets blasted off that bridge in Rio, dies for a few seconds and then dedicates the next decade (off-screen) to studying Dom’s every move.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 17 May 2023
  • These were subsequently blasted off the surface of the Moon and returned to China.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 May 2024
  • Stacked on a Super Heavy rocket, the Starship capsule blasted off at 5:50 a.m.
    — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • But the Patriots roared back in the bottom of the inning as the first two batters reached base and came home on Breaux’s blast off reliever Riley Pint.
    — Hartford Courant, 24 June 2022
  • When the spacecraft does eventually blast off, catch a livestream of the launch right here: This content is imported from YouTube.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2020
  • Branson became the first person to blast off in his own spaceship, beating Bezos by nine days.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan and Marcia Dunn, Star Tribune, 11 July 2021
  • Material blasts off the surface of the sun in dramatic loops, arcs and spirals.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
  • The supply mission was originally planned to blast off on July 21 but was moved back over the weekend.
    — Hailey Rose McLaughlin, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2019
  • The next woman to fly in space didn't blast off until nearly 20 years after Tereshkova’s maiden flight.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Schumann, in his 30s, is slightly more optimistic about his options to blast off.
    — Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2020
  • As the numbers on the countdown to blast off get smaller, training has been ramping up in pace and intensity.
    — Hayley Arceneaux, PEOPLE.com, 26 Aug. 2021

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