full blast

adverb

Synonyms of full blastnext
: at full capacity : with great intensity

Examples of full blast in a Sentence

the unsuspecting parents arrived home to find the stereo going full blast and the kitchen a mess
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And three, sometimes four, of those many waking hours are spent in the car — bouncing from home to school to her second or third job and home again — with music at full blast to drown out the babble of anxiety, most of it financial. — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026 White, Hampton tells Ditka, still can hear the echoes of Ditka on full blast. — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 At 4,000 lumens reaching up to 241 yards, a full blast of this light aimed at someone’s eyes is genuinely disorienting in the dark. — Karen Leblanc, Travel + Leisure, 3 Sep. 2026 Prolonged periods of extreme heat strain societal infrastructure, from the days-long demand on energy grids because of AC units on full blast, to crop yields and even public transit, Horton said. — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 1 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for full blast

Word History

First Known Use

1909, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of full blast was in 1909

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“Full blast.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/full%20blast. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

Kids Definition

full blast

adverb
: with all power or resources being used
a sawmill running full blast
the stereo was going full blast
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