They promptly blew a 10-point lead, then lost the game by 115-104, in overtime, to Portland, thereby squandering the home-court advantage, for which they had toiled since last November.

The little pod promptly blew itself to bits in an explosive decompression whose shrapnel slammed against the Excelsior's unguarded hull.

When I dropped the cubes into the oil, they promptly blew apart.

Vogga's waiting vessels promptly blew it out of space.

The main computer in the College of Cosmophysics started dividing every number in its memory circuits by zero, and promptly blew all its fuses.

Morris Jahelka, Cohen underboss, given a fiefdom--he promptly blew it, investing badly, no funds to pay his men.

A customer brought flower pots to decorate the entry and though they promptly blew down the street, she was not discouraged.

The Federation ship's phasers promptly blew the scout into very small flinders, but the attack was a measure of the Klingons' determination to bar the Federation from using Organia as a base.

The policeman gave an involuntary yell, thinking he had been stabbed, and promptly blew his whistle.