Except for the sun and the occasional thermonuclear blast, Las Vegas is the brightest source of light in our solar system.

There was a soft humming from electric fans in the ventilating system, the occasional blast of cold air.

A bugler followed a few paces behind him, waving a white kerchief and blowing an occasional blast upon his trumpet.

Off in the distance, sharp cracks of gunfire and the occasional dull blast of dynamite interrupted the rural drumming.

If he were outside now he might hear the thankless clank of mill machinery or the occasional blast of an explosive weld.

She could only lie on the bed, existing in a dull olive-drab reality shot through with occasional gaudy blasts of pain as her muscles cramped up.

All the way down, his laugh and the occasional blasts of his guns spurred his opponents to faster flight.

Winters in Winnipeg are usually long and dry with occasional blasts of bitterly cold weather from the northwest.

These days, it plays host to occasional blasts at Rome's mayor or city government.

For example, we find occasional disorienting blasts of alliteration.