We'd be practically blown back there.

The character is the "blow-away guy," the hip young man so moved by the outstanding performance of Maxell music products that he is practically blown out of his chair.

He was practically blown in half.

A conversation with Newt Gingrich puts one in mind of that ad for stereo speakers that shows the listener being practically blown out of his armchair by a howling wind.

Its courthouse was built in 1911 in the center of Bay St. Louis, and was practically blown away by Hurricane Camille in August 1969.

The besieged scorned the proposition, and the awful process of undermining went on until the town was practically blown to pieces.

'I'd come home and find things like the kitchen practically blown apart because the girls had put a tinned steak and kidney pudding in the oven and forgotten to take its lid off,' he laughs.