21.   Leaf blowers are obnoxious machines.

22.   Monday afternoon, the neighborhood was quiet except for the sound of leaf blowers.

23.   My brief fling with a leaf blower brought home to me how soothing a rake and broom can be.

24.   Noise, like that from lawn mowers or leaf blowers, seems to aggravate the bees.

25.   Of all the tools, my favorite is probably the leaf blower, whose engine is mounted on a kind of backpack that fits over my shoulders.

26.   Once the decontamination is complete, scientists will go through the building with leaf blowers, trying to stir up any stubborn spores that may have escaped detection.

27.   On every block, you hear the sounds of leaf blowers, mowers and weed whackers.

28.   Richard G. Cann dreams of a leaf blower that sounds more like a waterfall and less like an emergency siren.

29.   Some opponents deride the leaf blowers as phallic symbols.

30.   The bill would leave regulation of gas-powered leaf blowers to the state Department of Consumer Affairs.