Blew
Both words in one sentence
- MythBusters (see above) once had a myth fail to yield useful resultsthe Supersize JATO Rocket Car, because the rocket car blew up before it could launch off the ramp.
Source: Broke the Rating Scale - A possible urban myth has it that the British diplomatic contingent at the inauguration of President Clinton all, without fail, blew a squelching-raspberry noise at the end of the sixteenth bar.
Source: "Weird Al" Effect - Both of them fail, the former because Henry didn't take cover and got knocked off the airship by the blast debris, and the latter because the wind blew the acid onto Henry's legs.
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Fail and Blew. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 12, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/blew/fail
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