blow in

verb

blew in; blown in; blowing in; blows in
Synonyms of blow innext

intransitive verb

: to arrive casually or unexpectedly

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But in California, the winds are blowing in favor of the big guys. — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026 And the Santa Ana winds are blowing in September 1981, mentioned in a news report before an announcement of the latest Trawler victim in the season premiere. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2026 Asturias is washed by the weather blowing in from the sea and protected from the oven of the country’s central plains by the Picos de Europa, the jagged mountain range that forms the region’s southern border. — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2026 The organisms would have to have been either blown in by the wind or left over from a time when seawater was cut off from the ocean as water levels fell and the glacier moved into place over it at some point around two million years ago. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for blow in

Word History

First Known Use

1882, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of blow in was in 1882

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