Near 178th Street, huge chunks of the asphalt roadbed lay in the street, blown skyward, fire officials said, by the force of the break.
This type of kill is also associated with the jack-in-the-box effect, where a tank's turret is blown skyward due to the overpressure of an ammunition explosion.
Once the night before they had all been awakened by a display luckily miles away during which half a mountain must have blown skyward.
Often Lorna's appearances were heralded by smoke and her diaphanous gown was blown skyward by a wind machine.
My competent consort who carried powder across Kyphros on her mount and risked being blown skyward at any moment?
In the Zuid Willemsvaart Canal running below the town of Veghel, Cornelis de Visser, an elementary-school teacher, saw a heavily loaded barge blown skyward, shooting out airplane engine parts like a deadly rain of shrapnel.
Three thousand men were to be blown skyward in chunks of bleeding flesh, because Benedict Stark wanted the life of Andrew Marshall.
On a print by Kuniyoshi, an umbrella maker chases after his parasols, which have been blown skyward by the wind.
Durell listened to the slamming and banging of the mortar shells and watched the repeated clouds of black smoke and pitiful debris blown skyward against the pale pink sky.
How about that scene from "The Seven Year Itch" in which Marilyn Monroe's dress is blown skyward as she walks over a Manhattan steam grate, asked Ron Simon, curator of television at New York's Museum of Television and Radio.