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Examples for "coup-de-grace "
1 Before he can deliver the coup - de - grace , however, I conveniently decide it's time for lunch.
2 Hostilities were resumed and the coup-de-grace was given to Mexico on the historic hill of Chapultepec.
3 Will England also have received her coup-de-grace ?
4 We need to finish that off, or leave it open for the major media to deliver the coup - de - grace .
5 The time was ripe for the coup-de-grace soon to be delivered by Americans co-operating with the Allies on a seventy-one mile front.
1 This was a death blow to all my hopes and pleasant plans.
2 The old woman got her death blow when Robin's corpse was found.
3 To think that thy puny hand should give Higbald his death blow !
4 But the Wilhelm II apparently had not received her death blow .
5 This seemed to be a death blow to the dwarf theory.
1 But he pressed, expecting every instant the finishing blow on his head.
2 Then Eph spun around, looking to Setrakian to administer the finishing blow .
3 At this Yudhishthira abstained from giving his foe the finishing blow .
4 Her heart was previously affected, and physical exhaustion has dealt the finishing blow .
5 She thought she would give him a finishing blow or two.
1 He wouldn't get a quick- killing blow , not one to the sweet triangle.
2 Then Uther lifted the hammer again, ready to deal the killing blow .
3 He managed to lift his sword high enough to halt a killing blow .
4 The bout should have been over at the moment of that killing blow .
5 Kiska could sense Hattar at her back eagerly tensed for the killing blow .
1 She wasn't so much in love with me as she was a good fight and my finishing move , the step-over-toe-hold.
2 In the second round, and against an able-bodied opponent, replicating that same finishing move of her fighting idol, UFC trailblazer Ronda Rousey.
3 EBONY.com (kid 1): So Naomi, do you have a finishing move because I noticed you beat one of the twins with a crossbody.
4 When they get weak, they flash, and you can get in close to initiate a special finishing move , a "glory kill," that restores your health.
5 Like many companies, Professional Finishing moved into robotics as a matter of economics.
1 The West Ridge was an incredible climb- a real coup de grâce .
2 Or should I use his bayonet to give him the coup de grâce ?
3 In the meantime, I devised the coup de grâce of our evil plan.
4 Will you give him the coup de grâce , or keep him in your cage?
5 It was just four days after Carey's coup de grâce in the All-Ireland hurling final.
6 She lifted a hand, negligently studying her nails as she delivered her coup de grâce .
7 It will get its coup de grâce o' Sunday, when the king goes to mass.
8 If Blake sat down now it would just allow Duncan to apply the coup de grâce .
9 And just after lunch, our coup de grâce .
10 There is no officer of the guard to administer the coup de grâce with his pistol.
11 But he would not till with Lucas's own misericorde he had given him coup de grâce .
12 But he wasn't going to deliver the coup de grâce by dropping a forklift on my head.
13 I love these people, thought Juliet, and launched herself off the top rope for the coup de grâce .
14 This was the coup de grâce .
15 Watching me to see how that landed, he administered his coup de grâce , the one he'd been holding.
16 Harry swung at the demon's head a second time, hoping for mercy's sake to deliver the coup de grâce .
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