Examples of 'blowback' in a sentence
Meaning of "blowback"
Blowback is a noun that describes unforeseen negative consequences of an action, often in political or military scenarios
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- A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.
- An unintended adverse result, especially of covert political action.
- The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
- On a steam locomotive, the reversal of exhaust gases when the regulator is closed without using the blower.
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I do not want any blowback on the department.
They think it happened during the blowback.
All that blowback lands in your lap.
There could be some serious blowback here.
Probably blowback from a shot at close quarters.
It operates via straight blowback of the slide.
The blowback does not look good.
It would keep the blowback off of you.
This is a more robust version of simple blowback.
There would be blowback on her left hand.
The weapon was a fairly conventional blowback design.
Gunpowder blowback all over his hands.
Shorter height than stacked blowback designs.
But the blowback will kill you.
You had to know there would be blowback.
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I was due some blowback from that transplant.
This is only the beginning of the blowback.
We are getting some blowback about those guys.
We did brief our ministers on the potential blowback.
Covered with blowback and powder residue.
They will die from the blowback.
It must have been blowback from the aerosol canister.
It was engineered that way to prevent blowback.
That way there is no blowback on the bicep.
There was bound to be some kind of blowback.
Another one catches blowback from a jammed piece.
These actions have prompted a predictable blowback.
Filtration systems requiring blowback must be employed.
Blowback action and retractable bipods.
The carbine operates by direct blowback more.
Guess the blowback has started.
The carbine operates by direct blowback first.
The blowback destroyed it on the pad.
Maybe some kind of blowback from the mission.
The blowback in the lair knocked down my breaching.
But there is no blowback on this one.
Blowback rules the wilderness of mirrors.
The weapon uses a blowback mechanism to sustain operation.
This will not have any political blowback.
The pistol is blowback operated and striker fired.
We gonna deal with the blowback.
There is always blowback from distortions like this.
Be prepared to help me control the blowback.
Israel has perfected blowback as a tool of political control.
I need you to prepare yourself for some blowback.
But the blowback was sufficient to stop it for now.
We are going to get some blowback from this.
The blowback will be profound.
The particulates we found in the blowback are actually pecan.
A blowback nobody would risk.
