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Example sentences for "blasted"

Lexicographically close words:
blaspheming; blasphemous; blasphemously; blasphemy; blast; blaster; blasters; blastes; blasting; blastoderm
  1. The Cosmos XII blasted loose from her moorings and soared aloft into space.

  2. The spirit of that evil lurked about the banks of the Yser Canal with its long fringe of blasted trees, white and livid, with a leprous look when the sunlight touched their stumps.

  3. All this wide area of country is blasted and harrowed and holed with monstrous pits.

  4. He then goes on to tell how they blasted the crops and scattered pestilence among beasts and men, because of the prevalent wickedness of the people.

  5. They were looking for his arrival, and if a close carriage drew near, they believed he was within, until the carriage passing by withered all their hopes, and blasted their fond expectations.

  6. Vain were it for us to attempt its description; you will see it in ruined families, where are gathered blasted hopes, withered expectations, and pangs, deep pangs of untold sorrow.

  7. The whole company rose at my entrance; and when I saw so many eyes fixed at once upon me, I was blasted with a sudden imbecility; I was quelled by some nameless power which I found impossible to be resisted.

  8. He no sooner begins to move, than he counteracts himself; and terrour and pity, as they are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity.

  9. This can be no other than the "blasted tree" of the cipher.

  10. Overhead the great mountains shot up their craggy heads, blasted into a score of fantastic shapes, frowning down upon the barbarous scene like grim tutelaries of destruction.

  11. The Germans discovered the move, blasted the Russian trenches, and on 28-29 April recovered more than they had lost.

  12. Instead of their well-protected lines they had to lie in the open or in the blasted trenches of the enemy, and from thence to attack a second and a third line of defences not less strong than the first, but less battered by bombardment.

  13. But our gun pits, blasted out of the hillside, were almost completely protected against hostile fire, except perhaps from guns on S.

  14. Being an old Italian position, it had gun pits already blasted in the rock, though they were not quite suited to our guns and line of fire, and we had to do some more blasting for ourselves.

  15. The Italians had also blasted some good caverne in the position, and these we gradually enlarged and multiplied, till we had cover for the whole Battery.

  16. Here a heavy thunderstorm broke and we sheltered in the Headquarters of an Italian Field Artillery Brigade, likewise blasted out of the mountain side.

  17. They were all blasted in the rock, and many drilling machines were at work as I passed along them, increasing the number of caverne, or dug-outs, and deepening those already in existence.

  18. Luckily we had pretty good cover, mainly caverne blasted in the rock.

  19. It was a great climb, up a stony watercourse, now dry, and then through old Austrian trenches, elaborately blasted in the Carso rock and captured a year ago.

  20. From the defensive point of view our line was very strong, and the trenches, particularly at the eastern end, very good, deeply blasted in the rock.

  21. The gods have blasted me with one great blow.

  22. You blasted his good name, you sought his life, you sought his wife, you broke every bond, human or divine, to destroy him.

  23. It was I who wrote that letter which blasted you at Colonus.

  24. A flaming execration blasted the whole heathen world, 22 and a metaphysical quibble doomed ninety nine of every hundred in Christian lands.

  25. Now it was the Grand Oasis in the Arabian desert, flashing on the wilted pilgrim, over the blasted and blazing wastes, with the verdure of palms, the play of waters, the smell and flavor of perennial fruits.

  26. He checked her at precisely the right moment, as the sand seemed whirling up to meet them, swerved to dodge a fire-blasted trunk, and with a shout took the earth.

  27. Painfully, yet without a word of complaint or rebellion, they once more trailed over the fire-blasted hills on the quest of the wrecked Pauillac.

  28. Like a blasted pine on a mountain peak, She moaned and sighed every day and week; Awaiting the deadly, stormy gust That laid her low in the crumbling dust.

  29. Why had they not left her to wander about the world, or even die upon those blasted heaths of her country?

  30. Far down a lake full many fathoms deep, There dwelt this dragon dreadful to behold; For from his round red eyes he shot forth flames, And spouted from his snout a sooty smoke That burnt and blasted all around the mere.

  31. T was more than I could compass, For how was I to think With such infernal rumpus In such a blasted stink?

  32. It pointed toward a blasted pine taller than the rest, and he resolved to make for that.

  33. When he again gained level ground, he found that somehow he had lost sight of the blasted pine he had picked as a landmark.

  34. Hold fast to the anchor of your union with the Infinite Life; keep in the current running Godward and your life will not dry up or become barren, will not be blighted and blasted by the poverty drought.

  35. Doubt has killed more splendid projects, shattered more ambitious schemes, strangled more effective genius, neutralized more superb effort, blasted more fine intellects, thwarted more splendid ambitions than any other enemy of the race.

  36. For whenever these heavy guns had been brought into play before, they had blasted their way to the desired goal, no matter how strong or modern had been the defenses of steel and cement.

  37. Of course, he would have no further employment in Arizona, for his character was blasted forever.

  38. I don't much care whether he gets them or not, but I'd like about two minutes' private interview with that blasted greaser.

  39. Much of the road-bed was blasted through solid rock on the sides of the mountains.

  40. The intense heat blasted the vegetation far and wide.

  41. Home Rule, you know, and all that sort of blasted rot.

  42. It's the badge of some blasted society she's started.

  43. But won’t you and your mother get blasted sick of me?


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blasted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.