What's the difference between blowing and gusty?

Blowing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blow
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blow

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
  • (2) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
  • (3) "The government should be doing all it can to put the UK at the forefront of this energy revolution not blowing hot and cold on the issue.
  • (4) Rapid swelling of the knee following a blow or twisting injury is considered a significant injury.
  • (5) Drainage of contrast medium from the maxillary sinus during blowing and sniffing was studied by cine-roentgenography in 11 healthy subjects.
  • (6) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
  • (7) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
  • (8) Losing Murphy is a blow to the Oscars which has struggled to liven up its image amid a general decline in its TV ratings over the last couple of decades and a rush of awards shows that appeal to younger crowds, such as the MTV Movie Awards.
  • (9) Hagan’s defeat came as a shock and a heavy blow for the Democratic party in North Carolina, a purple state that now has no Democratic senator or governor for the first time in 30 years.
  • (10) The case of a 32-year-old man who suffered a blow to his left supraorbital region and eyebrow in an automatic closing door is reported to draw attention to the uncommon but trivial nature of this injury which may result in profound visual loss.
  • (11) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
  • (12) A rather pessimistic wind is blowing over cancer chemotherapy, while a not very objective enthusiasm for second generation immunotherapy is raising its head.
  • (13) The departure of Emmerson – who said in a statement that no allegations had been put to him – is a huge blow.
  • (14) On second impacts, the GSI rose considerably because the shell and liner of the DH-151 cracked and the suspension of the "141" stretched during the first blow.
  • (15) The files, which were made available to the Guardian , the New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel, give a blow-by-blow account of the fighting over the last six years, which has so far cost the lives of more than 320 British and more than 1,000 US troops.
  • (16) Maybe there was a wish to go for these stronger story formulations, more extreme situations to try to get the energy up to comfortably blow the lid off.” Miller pointed out to Franzen that he has developed something of a reputation as a misanthrope.
  • (17) Pure blow-out fracture or comminuted facial fracture, double vision and amnesia emerged as additional factors which yielded an efficient scoring system with a sensitivity of 89% and specificity of 90% for the population upon which it was based.
  • (18) It would strike a blow against its excessively adversarial ways of working, the two sides of a divided house braying at each other across the floor.
  • (19) However, a no show from the leader of the Commonwealth's biggest member would be a huge blow to the credibility of the organisation.
  • (20) All of which would be perfectly normal (after all, if there's anything valencianos love more than blowing off their fingers, it's complaining about their team) but for one thing: it was only just after half past nine and there was still an hour to go against hated rivals Real Madrid.

Gusty


Definition:

  • (a.) Subject to, or characterized by, gusts or squalls; windy; stormy; tempestuous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She lives in Holland Park and welcomes visitors with a gusty wrench of the door and a jubilant "hello".
  • (2) Fires began erupting on Tuesday amid high heat, extremely low humidity and gusty Santa Ana winds.
  • (3) Heavy rain is expected to return overnight with winds of up to 50mph bringing a gusty end to the bank holiday weekend.
  • (4) Firefighters contended with temperatures approaching 100F (38C) and gusty winds as they tried to contain flames fuelled by brush and trees left brittle by drought.
  • (5) Visibility could be significantly reduced at times with strong and gusty winds likely to accompany snow showers.
  • (6) A powerful storm system that caused hundreds of accidents across the western US has marched east with predictions of widespread snow, freezing temperatures and gusty winds.
  • (7) While temperatures this past week have been relatively mild, it’s the gusty winds and the dry conditions that continue to allow wildfires to grow rapidly.
  • (8) This year’s marathon day dawned gusty, cloudy and wet, but that did not deter the crowds.
  • (9) Of greater interest is the statistical documentation of temporal associations between short-term increases in daily mortality and certain weather situations corresponding to the transitional periods of turbulent atmosphere with below normal air temperatures, strong gusty winds and a drop in relative humidity, i.e., conditions accompanying the intrusion of a winter cold wave.
  • (10) It makes a gusty walk along the prom at a British resort seem a bit tame.
  • (11) Little wonder that on a gusty, wild evening at Wembley there was an undeniable edge of bleakness to the occasion before kick-off, only partly counterbalanced by the genuine warmth among the flags and scarves dotting the walkways as an 80,000 crowd funnelled itself into the stadium.
  • (12) If your hurricane plans got a little dusty because of the light hurricane season, now is a good time to update them.” Even if Joaquin does not make landfall, forecasters warn that it could produce heavy rains, gusty winds and coastal flooding.
  • (13) The coal-mining city of Donetsk where pro-Kremlin protesters declared a people's republic last week experienced "gusty wind, possibly the wind of change" caused by a cyclone from the region of Black Sea where the peninsula of Crimea is based, he said.
  • (14) Forecasters said some rain was possible in both fire areas on Sunday as well as gusty winds.
  • (15) Gusty winds quickly drove the flames through 800 acres of brushy ridges near Glendora.
  • (16) Combined with gusty winds, these temperatures will result in life-threatening wind chill values as low as 60[F] below zero [51C below zero].
  • (17) The National Weather Service warned of “gusty winds” in the north-east – up to 30mph – which it said would cause “wind chills to plummet”.
  • (18) His audience, beginning to tug their wraps around them against the gusty wind, had had nothing, and they were given little more.
  • (19) Similarly, we should have taken a lead in wind turbine development, given the gusty meteorological conditions of these islands but again we fluffed the chance.