Blast
Blast verb - To proceed or move quickly.
Usage example: rowdy teenagers blasting down the road in a sports car
Race
Race verb - To proceed or move quickly.
Usage example: was racing around trying to get everything done before her big trip to India
How words are described
| good | good blast | good race |
| long | long blast | long race |
| original | original blast | original race |
| single | single blast | single race |
| Other adjectives: powerful, actual, psychic, main, final, last, magical. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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It has more than enough firepower to destroy all of your towers in one blast, so it's a race against time to defeat Dark Falz Apprentice before it gets fired.
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He amusedly notes their various quirks as the days go by, and he berates himself if they get caught in a bomb blast or if the Pikmin race dies out.
Source: Videogame Caring Potential - Desperate not to 'lose' the race to Berlin to the insufferable Marshal Konev's 1st Ukrainian Front, Zhukov used his armoured 'exploitation' forces to blast his way through at a heavy cost in tanks.
Source: A Father To His Men / Real Life
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