How to Use blow-by-blow in a Sentence

blow-by-blow

adjective
  • Here is the blow-by-blow account.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • They’re always amped to give me the blow-by-blow from that game, too.
    — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2026
  • But the resulting blow-by-blow account neither clarifies much about what was going through their minds nor brings them to life as characters.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Detroit won 31-29, but the lopsided blow-by-blow revealed the ingenuity of their staffs and players.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Steinberg unpacks the blow-by-blow that led Disney to bench Kimmel — and the swift backlash that is still building in the creative community.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
  • After reading the blow-by-blow account spelled out in those texts, on October 16, 2023, investigators took action.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Cryer is similarly observant toward Sheen’s extended public meltdown, an early inflection point in the social media era in which onlookers got an exhilarating blow-by-blow of one man’s downward spiral.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The announcement of Dean and Allie as the couple in Season Two is the latest example of Off Campus’ showrunner and development team making the show a distinct offering rather than a faithful blow-by-blow of the novels.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026

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