What's the difference between blew and flew?

Blew


Definition:

  • () imp. of Blow.
  • (imp.) of Blow
  • (imp.) of Blow

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And just a few games shy of making history, the Warriors blew a 17-point lead and fell to the Minnesota Timberwolves – another team that didn’t even come close to making the playoffs – after forcing the game into overtime.
  • (2) The hype of thewhole week blew up in one overreaction from me.
  • (3) When a row about this blew up in March 2010 , just before the election, the prime minister claimed only to have been aware about it for less than month.
  • (4) One of the other attackers in the car is believed to have been Brahim Abdeslam, a Belgian jihadi who blew himself up on Paris’s Boulevard Voltaire.
  • (5) To keep the statistics rolling, last season's best-viewed match came in April when Chelsea blew the title race wide open by defeating Liverpool 2-0 at Anfield – it was watched by more than 3 million people on Sky.
  • (6) The final whistle blew and virtually all the Scarborough fans ran on to the pitch to 'celebrate'.
  • (7) "When it blew up you could see the shock wave hit the wheat field, boom," he said.
  • (8) The row blew up after Luzhkov criticised the Kremlin last week, questioning Medvedev's decision to suspend a Moscow-St Petersburg road-building project.
  • (9) The Sounders tried to keep the deal secret, but fans with access to Twitter and cellphone cameras blew the lid off.
  • (10) Perhaps, too, it’s the reason why another great Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid, blew hot and cold about him.
  • (11) As the final whistle blew, Wenger, suddenly wreathed in smiles, hugged his staff, players and even Alan Pardew, a managerial rival with whom he has not always enjoyed the most cordial of technical area relations.
  • (12) Two factors aligned for the extreme low in the snow pack last year: winter temperatures too warm to allow formation of snow in the Sierras, especially at lower elevations, and a phenomenon known as the “Ridiculously Resilient Ridge”, the high pressure atmospheric formation over the north Pacific that blew storm tracks off course, preventing rains from reaching California.
  • (13) Osborne also blew a £600m hole in Labour’s plans to fund its cut in tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000, taking the money to fund his savings package.
  • (14) Steel bands, choirs and dancers performed while the mass of people, many with their children, blew horns and whistles as they passed alongside parliament.
  • (15) "At first I was taken aback by how quickly this thing blew up."
  • (16) As Wayne Rooney placed the ball on the penalty spot, blew out his cheeks and prepared for the moment he had been waiting for all this time, Wembley lit up with a thousand and one flash bulbs.
  • (17) Marian Gaborik's goal meant that Chicago blew three leads in the game, something their fans can chew on during the intermission.
  • (18) Their average age was 23.5, with the oldest being Crawley father Abdul Waheed Majeed, 41, who blew himself up driving a truck bomb during a prison break in February.
  • (19) A former undercover spy who blew the whistle on abuses of a covert Scotland Yard unit has offered to speak to an inquiry if police chiefs withdraw their threat to investigate him for breaking the Official Secrets Act.
  • (20) At least two people – a woman, identified by police as Abaaoud’s cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen, who apparently blew herself up by detonating an explosive vest, and a man hit by multiple gunshots and a grenade – were known to have died in the seven-hour assault on the rundown apartment block .

Flew


Definition:

  • () imp. of Fly.
  • (imp.) of Fly

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
  • (2) But first he flew to Saudi Arabia to make the religiously encouraged pilgrimage to Mecca; he found himself stranded in Bahrain after he was unable to enter Kenya.
  • (3) Two weeks after the July 7 suicide bomb attacks that killed 52 London commuters and injured more then 750, Shahid, a young Londoner who had just completed his fourth year at medical school, flew to Pakistan .
  • (4) Twenty-one subjects flew aboard a KC-135 aircraft operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which performed parabolic maneuvers resulting in periods of 0-g, 1-g, and 1.8-g. Each subject flew once with a tablet containing scopolamine and once with a placebo in a random order, crossover design.
  • (5) The day after last Monday's trial, he flew to Switzerland from East Midlands airport to try to dissuade the government there from building a new coal plant.
  • (6) The German authorities confirmed that Abedi flew to the western German city of Düsseldorf, four days before the Manchester attack.
  • (7) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
  • (8) The French president, François Hollande, flew into the Central African Republic on Tuesday evening following an announcement earlier confirming the deaths of two French soldiers in clashes with militia forces they had ordered to disarm – the first losses in the French campaign in its former colony.
  • (9) When I flew to Salisbury shortly afterwards, the man in the next seat was clutching a thick polythene bag full of small metal objects.
  • (10) Pilots would have feared return fire if they flew close to check who was in the vehicles, the guide said.
  • (11) Had one of three efforts from open play that all flew inches wide also found the corner, it would have crowned one of this Premier League season’s better individual performances.
  • (12) The shirt commemorates a piece of Orwellian newspeak that flew from the lips of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.
  • (13) He flew into Britain on Monday on an Easyjet flight from Madrid accompanied by two detectives from City of London Police.
  • (14) Andy Hill, a 51-year-old former RAF instructor with more than 12,000 hours of flying experience, is a skilled aerobatic flyer and a regular at airshows, said fellow pilot, who flew earlier in the show.
  • (15) To be clear: nearly 100 Roma flew back to Bucharest on 19 August, 1040 since January 2009.
  • (16) If that means you have to build strong relationships sometimes with regimes that you don’t always agree with, that I think is part of the job and that’s the way I do it and that’s the best way I can explain it.” Government buildings flew the union flag at half mast for 12 hours on the day of the death of the king last month on the instructions of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which said it was acting in line with protocol for the death of a foreign monarch.
  • (17) Dramatic film of the incident in May was captured as the plane flew over London.
  • (18) The government has so far arrested 34 people over the jailbreak, including a man suspected of being a pilot who flew Guzmán away from the site after his escape.
  • (19) It flew over the statehouse dome from 1962 until 2000, when it was moved to its current location at a civil war memorial on the building grounds.
  • (20) Kerry flew into the Afghan capital in an attempt to salvage the faltering political and technical agreements that he had brokered between Ghani and his presidential rival, Abdullah Abdullah .

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